Hmm... I'm close to agreeing, although those willing to pay for the time and effort of others who still have a hand in the creation process isn't all together a bad thing.

It's fair.

Where I agree with you is the amazing ability to take a still image and experiment, for personal use.

I am just realising i can experiment with 15k + favorited images from a long lost and unused Flickr account I had, and upscale and add motion and "play" and be pretty amazed by the results!