The age of the last mover
We are in the age of the last movers. The first episode of the Flintstones, which can be seen here, cost approximately $670,204.12 (when adjusting for inflation). It took an entire year before the studio settled on a final design. And then they started on the episodes. The Flintstones is a generated abstraction of reality, and, by today's standards, not a very good one.