The VC feast is over, time to build automations?

This is my personal analysis based on all the information and news I've received from different channels and I'm absolutely open to different POVs.

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The VC feast is over, as a result the cash flows injected by them will slow down, ultimately the domino of lay offs will start, and companies that find themselves not able to increase or even keep their revenues start looking into cost savings in any ways possible.

As a result, during the next 2-3 years, I believe we'll see a rise in the startups helping companies to automate things completely or at least get their jobs done at a lower cost, rather than super innovative startups with fancy use-cases.

I'm not sure about the B2C startups, I guess it mainly depends on whether a recession happens or not, but at least I think this is how the market will change for B2B startups.

Also, during the hard-times, highly optimised, low-budget startups can shine. A great example of that are open-source/code-available projects which haven't raised at all, or have raised enough for 2 years (is the latter even possible?).

I should mention, I might be completely biased as the last paragraph is literally describing my own startup, DoTenX, but every single day, as the events unfold, I'm getting more and more convinced this is the direction we're heading.

What do you think?