Management/"execs": the likes of Barb Cimity running around with a fly-by-night "MBA" "degree", getting paid fat dollars for bossing people around. People such as JA running around foul-mouthed and drunk, making unkeepable promises to get people to sign up.
Artists: great talent here, mixed with two-bit programmers such as Doug and Craig, masquerading as "VFX Supes". What a joke.
Tech: Neanderthal-age "software" in the age of 1000% (yes, 1000%) interactive FREE apps that do everything that DW can do and more.. WHAT A JOKE. JK is fooled into making public statements about their software being the state of the art etc.. Software 2.0 at DW is analogous to "In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King". Their "tools" and "pipeline", what a POS pile of crap. I can create every effect, model, render, camera move etc. that DW can, with nothing but a laptop and FREE programs; to render, I can use cloud-based rendering. Buh-bye, "tech dept" (a bunch of overpaid, arrogant, smug CLOWNS". Time to pull your heads out of the ground or out of your asses, uncover your ears and eyes, and LEARN what is already out there, often, FREE for the taking. Stop bragging about what your wonderful technology can do, you are fooling no one. Gee, wonder why the movies cost so much?? It's the bloated "tech", stupid.
"Training": get off your ivory towers, stop "teaching" antiquated crap to us state-of-the-art artists. We knew, know, and will know WAY more than you. Just quit, the whole bunch of ya, and go home. No one needs you.
I'm lucky to be trained in classical animation AND 3D AND some scripting (thank you, Gnomon). I don't need to join loser studios like these to make a living. I am happily and gainfully employed right here in LA, hope it will last (no, not willing to post which studio I'm in).