In a similar vein to the question of separating art from the artist, I think it’s also worth discussing how one approaches appreciating art despite its often industrial and commercial origins.
Edited for clarity: commercial is sort of redundant, and may have given an impression of there being issue taken with any sort of money made from art, which wasn’t the intent. Focus was intended more on industrial, i.e. bigger business, art output.
Context is an important tool when determining authorial intent, but one can investigate a piece under the frame of the death of the author too should they want to understand more what they personally gain from a work or what someone else entirely gets out of it.
Just don’t do that if you already tried authorial intent and decided you didn’t like the answer that got you, because now you’re either gonna be seeing that bad answer you didn’t like in everything or refuse to acknowledge anything that might contribute to it, both of which are severe blocks to reading it for the intent of what you take from it.
Plus it makes you come off like some weirdo who tells the author they’re wrong when they confirm a ship as canon or not, yes even through the plot development of the media in question.
Am I understanding correctly that you’re suggesting an extension of death of the author to death of the industry to discern what one draws from art?