That's true, but it will likely be newer studios with younger professionals who are going to be using it, much as Miyazaki doesn't like CGI either yet it's widely used now in anime. The young drive the advances while the older eschew them, that's generally how human progress has been.

I don't even think it will be newer studios and that's it, probably well known studios will adopt it after a production ready solution is presented and battle tested, I doubt many will complain about not making in between frames. Probably newer studios with a smaller budget will just test it first.

I doubt they will have a choice given the price difference.

This is arguably a good thing because if production cost drops it should mean either higher quality or more content.

The production of works that use AI will drop, while the cost to produce higher quality works - works that don't use AI - will remain the same. All we'll get is more AI slop.

Why presuppose that high quality works can't be produced with the help of (near future) AI tooling? Just because you can produce slop with AI doesn't mean that you have to.

Because there are lots of verysmarts here that think they know what's best for industries they have no training or experience in.