No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.
Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?
The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.
Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.