I do at least appreciate that Vshojo has allowed some ex-corpo talents a second home, and that the talents are happy there and making a good living. But for the third-largest EN vtuber corpo, I agree that I find it hard to care about what they're doing.You've taken something I've been feeling for a fairly long time now and worded it perfectly: VShojo is the complacency company. It's hard to say whether it's due to the talent freedom letting them overindulge in novelties so they're not novel any more, or nobody involved giving a fuck in general, but it feels like nothing exciting happens, and when they do bother making an attempt it's just to tick a box while falling short of industry standard.
I don't trust them to handle anyone who genuinely wants to be an idol, just look at their previous attempts at idol performances and you'll understand why. The one-off show Nazuna did chugged along at 8fps like it was being encoded on someone's laptop from 2004, the Candy Pop thing used what were essentially the "How to Draw Manga!" brand of 3D models, and Ironmouse's """$100,000""" concert had a visual presentation on par with those kusoges that get rushed out in a month with no QA - I literally laughed out loud seeing the "crowd" outside the palace area consisting of like ten 2D character illustrations being shown at the wrong angles.
All the company itself can really do to draw attention is to accelerate and debut new talents, but even then it's kind of hard to care when they're just poaching ex-corpos who're gonna do the exact same shit they did before while also fleshtubing on the side for some fucking reason, rather than introducing new or previously overlooked talents who might bring something interesting to the table.
Also, complacency is contagious. If you surround yourself with complacent people, you're going to lose your drive and ambition. Pikamee left VOMS because they couldn't do stuff like the 3D concert for her and Vshojo could. Fair enough. She joins Vshojo as Henya, and got the 3D concert a few months after joining, which was really cool. But what's she done after that? It's been like eight months since then, and as far as I can tell, all she's done is gaming streams, zatsus and collabs. If she's got another concert planned or other ambitious plans, I haven't heard about them. It feels like a protracted whimper of an end compared to what she had originally planned. Thanks, Vshojo.