>>54774626Probably not but it's hard to tell. But the thing is that it's not just the models and hiring process that was "wasted", you also have to consider how much effort and money went into obnoxiously shilling them as much as they could.
Omegatroon acting as a megaphone, the twitter accounts constantly telling us about every shit they took, forcing that mass collab cover song that exploited girls to boost numbers, arbitrarily changing rules to push them into the limelight, speedrunning re-designs a million times faster than IRyS got, the list goes on.
I can very well believe this is one of those "company burned money for the sake of pozzing out" cases spearheaded by Omegatroon, like Hollywood whenever they make some SJW flick that flops at the box office. It's already known that stuff doesn't perform but it keeps getting pushed out anyway because we've unironically reached the point where even soulless corpos in PEAK CAPITALISM prioritize culture war bullshit over ACTUALLY MAKING MONEY.