I would like to read something about Hollywood production cost inflation. It wasn't terribly long ago (the 90s? 00s?) that whole-ass movies were being produced for what these people now claim it costs to do a couple episodes of bad streaming tv. Where's the money going.

Look at an action sequence from tv on the 90s and it will become very evident. Asking for cinema-quality production in a form where you're producing 8 hours of content instead of 100 minutes of content is going to balloon budgets to cinema scale and beyond