I think this an area where AI generation can help a lot. Big studios will still do things by hand for better quality and less constraints, but for indies, generating a character with "stylized cell-shaded human character under X polygons" and then go from there will be a revolution.
I'm paying ~10 bucks for spotify to stream music non stop. I'm also paying netflix some ~16 bucks for 4K movies/series. There's no way a text search is more expensive than a 4k, 5.1 channels movie.
I'm using Kagi since they were in beta, but as soon as my subscription expires, I'm done...