Re:Cy Yu clips, I watched the full VOD of that stream for full context and almost everyone is misunderstanding some details.
It was NOT a recent interview. He didn't just dodge a bullet, he avoided this entire all out war altogether lol
The interview(s) happened circa 2021, a bit after his 1.0 debut as "Cy Yu". This was before his huge growth spike as both a VA and streamer for Genshin/Star Rail, etc. that happened around late 2022.
He was discontent with the lack of support for indie male Vtubers and had wanted to quit, so it seems he wanted to try his hand at auditioning to a corpo for perks.
The interview in which they would NOT let him continue voice work AT ALL was Niji. ("OH, so you put your voice work above all else?", "Is there any way we can convince you otherwise [to quit VA?]".... Literal super villain tact levels of persuasion here lol)
He says he also "auditioned" for another company which wanted to replace his agents with their own and that could only be Hololive for the Holostars division BTW, seeing as there's literally no other big corpo at the time accepting male talents. And afaik, Hololive allows their talents to still do voice over work. (Isn't Flayon a EN VA? Cy Yu knows him BTW so he must be)
Of course, he made the right choice, because after getting into Hoyoverse games as a VA, this dude hits 1k+ viewers minimum easily.
Maybe he would have enjoyed his time in Holostars but.... Niji would have broke this dude down completely.
(Also fyi, he has no actual vtuber history knowledge and seems to do vtubing like your average Twitch streamer [no real big keyfabe] but he's a nice guy from what I've seen of him.)