How do I cope with my profession being cut when I'm good at it?
You can see exactly what a work needs, and the industry keeps shrinking the space to do it. That is a real grief, and calling it grief is right. You are not overreacting. You are watching something you love and are good at be treated as expendable, and that hurts in a deep place. Hold two things at once. The industry's choices are not a verdict on your worth. Budgets and trends cut good work all the time; that says something about them, not about the value of what you do. Your skill is real whether or not the market currently pays for it the way it should. Grieve it honestly, and then ask where your eye can still be used. The skill of seeing what a work needs travels further than one job title. Reach out to one person this week doing adjacent work and ask how they use that same eye. You may be mourning one door while another quietly waits.