According to the statements from the recent earnings release slides, they're pivoting their growth strategy more from just being a vtuber agency to an IP-focused one, so it makes more sense to stop releasing gens more often and focus on growing the brand and existing IP of the vtuber characters they already have as they forecast more revenue growth in merch and licensing compared to the traditional bread & butter of vtubing agencies like superchat splits and concert ticket sales.Im more surprised he eventually will forfeit the rule of 1 new gen per year, because graduations in hololive are so incredibly rare they have shitload of moneymakers in the roster, they prefer to make them grow instead of just slamming gen after gen to see what stick like the Nijerios does