> The lessons learned and art created during that time will remain and enrich the “video” or whatever you want to call the replacement for cinema.
It wont, though. That’s the thing. It’s the same thing that happened to classical animation. A hundred years of technique and mastery passed down from generation to generation, now completely lost.
Does it not live on in all ways that matter in anime? I’m not attached to a production format or a label. The future will not be short of cartoons nor will it be short of films that move people. Sure they may be now alongside a massive scale of what you don’t like but that’s the beauty of the information web.
The good anime production methods were invented in ~the 80s - 60-70s anime were based on looking at Disney once and then figuring out how to do it for much less than a reasonable budget. 70s anime is painful to look at, kind of like if you made a show out of stop motion cardboard cutouts.
So I wouldn't really call them generational. They are suffering though, as they took on too much business without getting paid enough for it, and the studios can't keep up.
The lessons learned and art created during that time will remain and enrich the “video” or whatever you want to call the replacement for cinema.