Definitely. Even accounting for YouTube's anti-long form, animation-hostile policies, it's never been so easy to produce, publish, and disseminate your animation on your own. It's also never been so easy finding and collaborating with such a wide variety of artists outside of an industry setting, either. It's still definitely a mixed bag, but there are definitely a lot of advantages in that mixed bag that weren't available to us before.

Also, Dropout is great! I love their content, and their people-over-profits principles make it so easy to want to reward their excellence. I love that they don't try to erect any barriers preventing you from dropping and re-subscribing month-to-month at your convenience, nor try to adopt all the anti-customer policies that mainstream services use to extract as much profit as possible, such as preventing screen/account-sharing. If you do pick it up, I hope you enjoy! :)