the anime industry has always kept up with the times, implementing new methods and such to produce their animations, this isn't any different, they may use these methods or they may not, it doesn't mean anime is over by any means.

And as a huge anime fan I can tell the difference, it would annoy me to watch an anime like that, animes fans get pretty anal about the visuals myself included.

not to say that this won't happen though! I'm looking forward to asking a.i. to give me new episodes of my favorite anime