>>85556384This partially.
>>85556047They've talked about wanting to do more big servers like HoloArk, or Nijisanji style tournaments for years, but HoloRust in 2022 showed they were all too busy to do it for more than 1 week.
And guess what? They're only doing them for 1 week at a time now, when time permits.
+ the biggest thing - there are fewer 3D events to record and train for this year, since they reduced anniversary lives to 1 per group.
There are more Sololives and live concerts though. So I don't know what the work load is behind the scenes, but staff is also heavily involved in these group events now, as opposed to 2021 attempts.