He learned about this "packaging" crap back in 2002.
What took him so long?
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/wga-agencies-writers-agree...
> The WGA aims to revise its decades-old rules to bar agencies from taking packaging fees from production entities on TV series and movies, and the guild seeks to bar WGA members from working with talent agencies with parent companies active in the production arena.