>>43187536Permissions are a pain in the ass, sure, but it's not like the talents are scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to making content that's allowed within their reach, even with the current management.
However, the last paragraph is entirely correct and has surely caused the market share loss of HoloEN. What the branch has lacked (and will lack, since now they can just invite them to Japan for anything) was a hefty reinvestment towards a new base of operations, studio included, outside of Japan.
Hololive's main draw is undoubtedly their 3D content. Everybody talks about the birthday live shows, the sololives, 3D programs and the like, it keeps interest in the company. When Myth debuted with flying colors, no one doubted that they will stand on the same stage as their senpais. However, Cover bet on the wrong horse with the coof restrictions and figured EN will just travel to Japan in 2021 once they are lifted to do their 3D programs. The lift of restrictions didn't come until a year and a half later. This delay, with CouncilRyS piling up additionally, caused a ton of problems with keeping up interest with the audience, and after Gura's and Kiara's not so successful attempts at making their own 3D projects, many people gave up on expecting hype content out of HoloEN.
If Cover decides otherwise and sets up a new base of operations (in NA, most likely) when they saw Myth's success, they could have been done by the time IRyS debuted at the latest and keep up interest. Furthermore, they could have put EN management as well there, avoiding the awkward meetings because of the JP timezones. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they didn't want to debut EN3 when the pioneers are still lacking their 3D debuts, so with having that under their belt, we could have them by now.
