Consider that maybe, just maybe, you are in your own bubble, being blind to what is actually being done. Look at another comment in this thread. [1] Six guys produced 23 minutes of rotoscoping in a short time with just an experimental colab notebook, something not possible before. They made the concept art and transferred it to their live play. What did they steal as per your comment above? The concept of having a body, limbs, and a head?

Several styles in animation already converged to the same playbook to cut the production costs. They can massively benefit from this, as it enables things that were not possible before due to the high manual labor requirements. This is a major limiting factor.

Maybe, just maybe, the point about replacing the skilled artists with prompt-writing monkeys is moot, because this is an emerging highly technical creative field akin to 3D CGI and nobody is actually doing it like the panicking crowd with zero understanding likes to imagine? If anything, the industry is perfectly capable of exploiting underpaid labor and drowning itself in shit without using any AI.

Might it also be that the entire moral panic and the ethics angle was just a viral fluke of a twitter horde amplifying the info noise without giving it any thought or having a look into it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142433