It’s not as if this is necessarily worse than other stuff that gets 7 back-to-back seasons of anime, but it’s not boding well for the industry to need to endlessly turn to older stuff instead of making something whole-cloth new. Anno and Khara could probably do whatever they wanted since they likely have the funds and talent (or at least the industry cache to acquire talent) to do whatever they want. We could finally get Uru In Blue or something, but whatever. Maybe it’ll be like Star Wars and we’ll get an Andor out of it sometimes where people are forced to slip their desired art into the skin of these industry titans.