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Part of me wonders if this has to do with how hard it is to get into the animation industry in the modern age. It makes me think of high-level careers like soccer, ballet, or the orchestra; if your parents didn't get you into it as a toddler, you won't get to be involved in higher grade levels, so you won't get scouted for college, and won't be able to go pro as an adult. You basically have to have (your age)+1 years of experience in things like soccer if you ever want the chance to become a professional, and you can't stop even for a minute or someone else will take your place and leave you behind.
Professional animation seems like one of those kind of careers; you have to have connections, money, and a portfolio all by the time you're 17 and graduate high school, or you're never going to go to one of the big schools, so you'll never work at a big studio, never work on a big project, and never get to become a showrunner yourself.
Not to say of course that's the ONLY way to get into any of those professions, there have been outliers, but they're outliers for a reason. So the industry ends up with people who had connections, money, and a portfolio good enough for a big school by the time they were 17, which creates an incestuous pool of people who only care about becoming animators and never did anything else because if they stopped to do anything else, they wouldn't get to become an animator.
