I'm a fan. I am displeased by stylistic homogenization.

Like, I get that this is, on some level or to whatever extent, a .... marketing to whichever demographic kind of problem or process.

Either I am in the minority of fans, or, they're targetting market demos inefficiently.

... it would be very difficult to say which of those is closer to 'true', with anything approaching objectivity, unless people were literally polled/surveyed on this.

But, the other element here is that just is what capitalism does to art. It smushes everything down into generic, familiar, safe, with as much broad appeal as possible.

Because its churning this stuff out on an assembly line, anime is a mass market product, like spam or canned soup or plastic plates.