>Unions don't help with that as can be seen with Volkswagen or much of Detroit.

Yes, let's point to examples of intentional union decay as proof that unions do not work.

>VFX was already largely offshored by the early 2010s

And there's still VFXs jobs domestically. For the same reasons offshoring tech in the 2010's didn't work out

> much of the industry has already shifted to ASEAN, China, and India where there is no real unionization to begin with.

Most countries are not "at-will" like the US. those houses cannot just layoff people on whim.

That said, yes. VFX is very much a contractor-driven field. But there's a different between knowing the end of a contract, and waking up one day to realize your key fob doesn't work and you're locked out of your account. You get to plan around the instability.