I feel you, but I come from a different angle. To me an artist is someone who puts his art out there to have it admired and cherished. Movies (and other art) that just caters to the audience are boring, people want to be inspired by art .

It is rare that something becomes good just because the artist got drowned in money. In fact you could argue that artists become worse the more their ass are filled with money (there are exceptions ofc).

I hope this makes sense but I feel it is the same for art everywhere, even on Steem, you got a ton of overvalued art and a ton of undervalued art and I feel copyright and IP ain't doing a damn thing to prevent that, maybe they even solidify it.