If and when Cover ends up in a similar situation, they'll most likely mess up just as badly.
What? No. I hope they surprise me by handling things better. I hope Niji learns to treat their talents well. I want everyone to succeed, corpo and indie alike, and deliver great streams that people enjoy. I'm just tired and despairing at Japanese corpo bullshit that I no longer think is fixable. (And that's spilling over into my opinions on vtubing)
I think they have been through enough of the same situation and has been able to show their handling it well. Their strategy has always been "admit fault and blame themselves" and it has been working for them. Don't see why would they randomly deviate from it.
Just look at the similar things:
1. Someone doing a flip - Mano Aloe, Hitomi Chris, Rushia (debatable if she actually did)
2. Music cover getting privated after uploading - thousands of them, as long as you are willing to look. Polka's song with Riapi from a month ago, got privated 2 days after upload, is still not up for example. Hololive is the original perm autism company, not Nijisanji
3. Not paying artists commission - actually already did with the JFTC thing, but other than revisions they honor their deals in the first place.
4. 1% merch - very nijisanji specific, Yagoo even faked arguing with "investors" about not going that route.
5. Terminations - been there done that.
6. Apologize for memes - Not so far, but they are known for guilt tripping talents, also known as "bonking"
7. Negligible - Patented Riku Tazumi, irreplicable. But tbh, Hololive built a big enough foundation that termination and graduation are actually negligible.
Just looking at holoEN, they lost fauna who was hovering around top 1, gura who's more dead than alive, ame who was number 1.
As long as they don't act smug about it, they should be fine.
8. Black stream - actually they did do 'em. Pekora's "black stream" on Rushia termination is still her #1 most viewed stream.
9. Musician acting as CEO, forcing to sign NDA in 2 hours and leaked legal document despite being told not to - patented Niji,
10. Whatever the fuck happened with Ina VISA, at least Nijisanji got Elira's VISA just fine
11. Shitty, unfixed 3D models - Patented Nijisanji. But Altare had a similar thing with his home3d model? hardware? Idrc.
12. 1 manager 5 talents - actually recently confirmed by Matsuri to be the case.
13. Selen's shit - Suisei pretty much all but confirmed doing the same things that Selen did, going around management to get her projects running, fighting with management, etc.
They basically went through everything Niji did but handled them better at every steps. Even if they handled 1 or 2 step wrongs, noone cares, Niji just managed to do all of them wrong, at the same time, while blaming everyone else but themselves.
I understand your disappointment for Japanese corpo because they are largely shit but Cover corp is one with a much better track record than anyone else at handling "situations". It should be fine as long as Yagoo is at the helm.
My favorite quote from Yagoo is : "I don't know jack shit about things so I listen to the younger generations". (he totally totally said this word by word, and not me not remembering the exact quote), while most CEOs are narcissists who thinks they know everything and anyone who disagree with them is wrong (cue Elon Musk "smartest person on Earth"). Maybe in 10 years, Yagoo steps down, and some new, dumb CEO ruins everything. But that's 10 years from now, there's no telling you even care about vtubing 10 years into the future.