So many things are wrong with this article but I’ll start with Haruhi Suzumiya being a ‘light novel’ (a novel printed in large text as if for seniors with a few illustrations) as opposed to a ‘visual novel’ (something you would make with https://www.renpy.org/)

It is hard to know because financials aren’t public but it’s not clear to me that Crunchyroll has really addressed the commercial problems anime had in western markets. In the VHS era there was a fight over subtitles vs dubs which was acute because you could not put multiple content tracks on the media, in the DVD age you could.

More fundamentally, dubs cost a lot of money in comparison with subs and were always terrible until the people who made those terrible dubs gained experience and some of them got good. (Though they do their best work for game publishers like Idea Factory and ATLUS who care.) At the time people though subs had a limited market but now subprime anime (and sometimes good anime) gets shoveled onto Tubi and people watch it —- today we’re in the habit of watching movies with subtitles because you can’t make out the dialog on half of the new Hollywood movies anyway.

Since crunchyroll is in the vainglorious subscription racket I can only assume they’re as profitable as Netflix, Disney Plus, Peacock, etc.

The article touches on but doesn’t really stress how it is very rare for an anime to start out as an anime (Precure?) but rather it is the way you know you made it if you made a manga, light novel, visual novel, video game, etc. The economics are brutal and nobody is going to invest in it if the story, characters and settings haven’t been market tested. Of course this leads to problems like you can find out how the anime you like ends if it you look at the source material.