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How Did TPCi Do A Worse Job than 4Kids with their own property's dubbing?

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How did these jokers put out a worse English dub than the infamous 4Kids Entertainment ever did over all 8 years for the PokeAni and Movies overall?

Pokemon is the one franchise I see universally defunct 4Kids is getting redeemed for, in recent times, regarding the main series English dub.

And they actually contrary to their usual work did a fairly good job with it (donuts/sandwiches and some random films/Chronicles aside), but still relevant. Why was TPCi's dub so terrible, and unbearable for most of the fans, or what made it suck?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonanime/comments/11iv45s/comparison_of_the_different_versions_of_the_dubs/

Was it the change in voice actors for the worse for basically all the main cast because, "We need to save money and cut costs, fans won't care if we replace everyone?" (Even though there was an absolute uproar when this occurred for close to half a decade, and to this day, TPCi's voice cast remains worse than the original 4Kids voice cast for most fans)

Was it the replacing more of the original Japanese OST/music than 4Kids ever did in their entire tenure with Pokemon, from XY onward that did it (and only keeping the same amount they did in AG in BF for the most part, as well as slightly more replacement music in the last Season of BW than either prior Arc)?

Was it TPCi bringing back the 4Kids style visual edits/censorship from late XY onward?

Was it the opening theme songs getting really dry/generic over time, and TPCi cutting their length into half the length of the ones 4Kids created?

Or was it something else?

Basically a thread asking what caused the Pokemon English dub to go to downhill from the old days, for you, or for anyone personally?