Here's one thing I'm confused about. Why do people think it's reasonable to get an animated series anytime soon?
Let's look at Amazon's Big Animated shows that came out in the last 5 years. We have essentially three categories. Super Big IPs that had some sort of Celebrity backing. Super Big IPs that have casual appeal, Super Big IPs that brought in their own Money. And a sort of 4th in Super Big IPs they are already running and the animation is a spinoff, like Diabolicol.
The First category is looking at things like Invincible. Where the show is done well and gaining popularity, but started with Celeb support pushing it.
The Second Category is something like their Angry Birds show.
The Third is going to be your Hazbin Hotels and Legends of Vox Machina where there was already tons of money and a huge fanbase and Amazon just jumped on board to lighten the load. (Vox Machina in particular is a shining example of this. The company who owns it did a Kickstarter with a goal of $750k for what would have been the first two episodes of season 1. Then stretch goals up to 8.8 Million that would cover all of season 1. They didn't expect it. They raised 11 million. They didn't get picked up by Amazon, they walked to multiple studios already having the money to produce season 1 entirely and chose Prime.)
In all honesty, WoT has none of this.