But if what 27 of these “artists” were really just doing grunt work to make the studio function…?

Perhaps we are freeing them up to actually be creative?

Liberating them from the treadmill of grinding one’s way to the top when instead the real talent can shine through as moats are filled in.

It’s not art related but once upon a time there was a whole job that was to go into the bank bond vault and physically tear off literal paper coupons from bonds and bring them up to the customer at the front desk who could redeem them for money.

Nobody is lamenting the loss of that job.