I believe it does. In the comic world there were famous collaborations between visual and text artists. When the latter died the comic withered. Anime is about

I believe it does. In the comic world there were famous collaborations between visual and text artists. When the latter died the comic withered. Anime is about story telling - much harder to do well with images alone. The real problem with all these brand killing enshittification moves is the delay until consequences manifest.