I swear to god half this board is cope, seethe and doom from industry animators.

Animation is not dead, YOU are working on SLOP and you KNOW it. There is plenty of animation that's not slop, but YOU aren't making it. You don't like it, but you're not willing to take the financial risk of going indie, so you just pretend it doesn't exist. You'd rather think animation is doomed than admit it's not but you don't get to work on the good stuff.