Art always finds a way, and even with all the crap, you can hardly kill the art, so...
Maybe it's not all lost, maybe it's so optimistic but the future of animation it's definitely outside the California shithole, it's also on indie projects from all the world, talented videogame creators and international festivals, there's hope, and, If those talented animators can escape of content farms, Californian nepotism crap, and awful scripters, then yes, probably animation can be saved, or at least, preserved