So it seems that while most other Holomem who had public talking streams primarily talked about their feelings, Botan requested no clippings and then went all in on the technical details. I do not know if this might be partially because of Kanata's announcement also discussing the technical details or not, but I think pretty much the entirety of Botan's stream is very informative, and I will attempt to bring up a couple major points, divided in two posts addressing her opinions of the entertainment industry in general and Cover in particular, which are related but also different.
Regarding the entertainment industry in general, the major points of Botan are that firstly (1), it's quite fundamentally different than many other industries in that it is difficult to talk about whether certain tasks are within or without the creatives' responsibilities, since there is virtually no limit to doing any given creative task well, i.e. there is always more to do.
Secondly (2), the way creative projects and creative tasks work, for example even if multiple Holomem take on a project as a group, it can turn out that one of them has a disproportionately heavy workload. For a specific example that happened to Botan, she agreed to a project after mostly reading the main tasks, but only when she read the detailed sub tasks, it turned out that her workload was like 3 times heavier than the others.
But because her (quite Japanese, if I might say so) thinking is that it would not look good if she reneged after agreeing already, she would perform the tasks and then brought the matter up afterward. Which is what she did, and her manager was very surprised and brought it higher up the chain, and ultimately an exec came in person to apologize to her and promised that they would not let this happen again.
Thirdly (3), Botan described her general perspective on workload, which I personally think is probably quite Japanese and quite common. Regarding the previous example, she remarked that for her it is not even the workload itself but rather the way the workload was foisted on her. If instead a higher up would touch base with her in advance and admit that they were in a pickle and they would be very grateful if she could help, then she would if she could.
And more generally, she really understood and empathized with Kanata, because she really understood the feeling of not wanting to look "bad", i.e. looking like she just does not want to do the tasks, and so she keeps doing them and so the stress keeps building up.
Fourthly (4), on the other hand, she also acknowledged that (corporate) Vtubing is the same as with most other (corporate) creative endeavors, in that the industries, to a very large extent, really run on "passion", which makes the issue of workload quite complicated and constantly in flux.
For example, Botan herself had experiences almost suggesting to do certain tasks for free, but she was stopped by her manager, because if she were to do certain tasks for free then not only would people likely expect her to do so by default in the future but also that would negatively affect other Holomem. At this point a couple people in chat also brought up how veteran seiyuu do have to keep in mind how their accepting certain level of compensation would affect newcomers.
Fifthly (5), regarding the issue of NDA, Botan explained that the primary problem is precisely because it's *not* black and white. And to an extent, it is up to the talents to judge for themselves where to draw the line, which is of course a huge pain in the butt.
And this "not black and white" element is also prevalent in other areas too. For one example, one could consider how in principle management being not entirely inflexible is actually something to criticize because without clear and transparent guidelines, communication problems can easily occur.
For an example, Botan considers herself an obstinate person who never gives up, and whenever management would say no to her she would insist on asking for detailed explanation and push and push for a compromise. And in general that works out for her, but then it's not great that the "limits" in practice are only found to the extent that a given Holomem happens to push that far, and it is easy to imagine how other Holomem can look at that and feel some bitterness because it seems like management says yes to some but no to others arbitrarily if not unfairly.
