If Pratt won the City Council wouldn't have worked with him, at the same time L.A. has a strong Mayor system so he would have had the ability to change things.
I'd push back on the Detroit comparison. Yes Hollywood is important to L.A., but their economy is much more diversified than Detroit's ever was.
Okay...let's look at their economy:
Hollywood itself has turned into Woke nonsense, and more and more is being produced elsewhere.
The oil and gas refiners are leaving.
Ships are avoiding the port now, due to rampant crime and lack of fuel.
Independent truckers have left or are leaving.
Union Pacific and BNSF are both considering stopping train service due to abusive laws.
Water supplies are considerably curtailed since ecowackos have insisted on destroying reservoirs.
Power generating capacity in the SDTC is woefully insufficient, leaving the territory open to more and more instability of supplying power.
Six Flags has closed.
Disneyland has become too expensive to visit.
Air traffic and LAX and SNA are reduced, and face lack of fuel.
Several restaurant chains that started in the SDTC and particularly in the Los Angeles area are leaving.
McDonald-Douglass is gone.
Boeing is closing the Long Beach plant and moving jobs to Texas.
Several music and film producers are moving to Texas, Utah, or Florida.
Federal fraud is rampant in the SDTC.
Continuing violent crime in Los Angeles, including open looting, riots, shootings, thuggery, harboring of illegal aliens, insurrection, carjacking, vandalism, murder, and arson are major problems.
Homelessness and drug use is everywhere, making the streets filthy and unsafe.
No fun.