Saying a specific movie “relies on visual effects” to tell its story is like saying another specific movie “relies on costumes” to tell its story.
@tvaziri when I was working on Maya and told people what I did for a living, I found that many people believed that using computers meant that the director could just press a few buttons and these Hollywood-quality VFX and animations would just pop out, fully formed. A case of “I don’t understand how this works, so it must be easy!”