artists trying to pay rent,

This is sounding like the Waffen-SS apologism doing the rounds lately. The Nazis were just people trying to survive, right? These are people who work in fucking Hollywood. Are you at all familiar with American movies?

and I don’t think “imperialist propaganda” describes the vast majority of low-pay low-prestige writers.

Why are you trying to paint these people as poor? Why are you focusing on these people?

For every Avengers New Game+, there are plenty of small B movies, romcoms and other low success things

And they will continue to be low success because they don't toe the line. The only things that will be successful are things that further the interests of the American empire. Manipulative propaganda about how great America is and how its soldiers feel sad after they murder around the world.

There’s also the occasional good stuff, like the new She-Ra...I doubt anybody here can genuinely say they think every single contemporary work produced

This is a cartoon from my childhood forty years ago. These scumbags can't even come up with anything original anymore, not even a new vehicle for Bono and Sean Penn.

Tell me, how poor was the writer who wrote this She-Ra shit? Do you even know?