I would think that it's because streaming sites need to allocate bandwidth for the millions of paid subscribers at any one time and hamstring the bitrate so more people can watch at once, especially in the one household.
Streaming will never beat blu ray or 4K discs. I want to own all my favourite things on blu ray and I'm getting pretty close to that.
That all said however, I typically don't complain about the streaming services as more people than ever like anime as it's got quite a few titles on most streaming services now.
I remember the dark days of you get what you get if you found a tape or dvd, or if a certain TV station decided to show a certain series, it was sorta being curated, in a bad way, I'd watch the few things I had over and over again instead of watching TV.
Piracy is like the rest, too much of it is bad, it comes with detrimental side effects.
Monetary incentive is important, Macross had fans only because we had to pirate things, Shoji Kawamori was aware of this and had been slowly adding english subtitles onto some Japanese blu ray releases.
We get the best products when they sell, if macross 7, delta and frontier don't sell well enough when theyre finally released, we won't get dynamite, the frontier or delta movies.
the japanese companies in particular base the worth of a property on how well the merch sells, not viewership.
Things are better than they've ever been when it comes to the amount of shows we have available to us.
I gladly pirate disney properties though, they meddle with the shows and movies on their platforms quite frequently and they suck.
They can't be bothered to put anything other than english on the macross shows, yet crunchyroll offers subtitles in many languages
I don't like when there are paid translators that put memes or stuff that aren't in the original scripts.
This won't be a thing anymore as AI has become extremely intelligent, with every passing year, AI is gonna translate things directly and have the context correct. That doesn't care about memes or certain current year "politics". They've all been sacking their translators for the most part. I've watched AI go from making massive mistakes, to it being like having a PhD assistant when I am doing my programming assignments. This will also make things cheaper for the companies to do when it comes to non english properties. That said, it will increase their margins, these savings will not be passed on to us in any way.
If only crunchroll would ship those macross t shirts to europe.
