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...and crucially, don't NEED to be paid for their work.
Yes, FOSS is 'a thing', but it doesn't require complicated and expensive things like sets, locations and recording studios - because code is entirely abstract, it doesn't have these constraints.
Yes, there will still be the occasional thing from a passionate story-teller, but without the budget to ensure the appearances are as intended we'll be far more limited in what stories we can tell (however, I'd gladly live in a universe without the constant marvel drivel!). We'd still be excited about 70s era star trek-type stuff, not the recent Dune movies...
While there's certainly shitty cash grabs going on, there's still passionate story tellers and the reason everything these days is shitty cash grabs is because we're all pirating everything the studios won't take a risk on a genuine story