Don't judge me, but during a coding session, I got caught up watching "Gold Rush" on whatever channel it comes on.

After sort of passively watching it while doing other things, one of the episodes in the marathon was a "behind the scenes" sort of thing, where they showed that drone cinematography is used, basically, in like 80% of the filming done for that show.

They send the cameramen out in two-person teams, one to fly the drone, and the other to operate the camera, with an Oculus-looking visor on so that they can simply see the camera as through a viewfinder.

The "intent to generate income" is not only there, it's at some point in the past.