My opinion is that the VTubing scene could have far more high quality backend staff. But only if corpos were willing to pay salaries proportionate to the hours and skills required to be a manager. I think that corpo work is still the best way to get genuine work experience in the field, but it comes at a real cost. There's a world where the pathway looks like: - get skills from other jobs - join corpo as a manager - have decent starting pay and a structure for career progression - corpo upskills you to improve your existing skills, and grants exposure to new types of work to broaden capabilities I know of too many cases where managers were and sometime still are working 60+ hour weeks for like $25k/yr. That's about $8/hr, it's no wonder most of us realise indie management is the only way forward on a career progression level. Management is a huge, multifaceted role with many specialisations. Other industries worked this kind of thing out ages ago. All of the above can be applied to any backend role also. I hope that Western company leadership figures take notice of that actively and understand it. Getting and retaining good staff, that remains loyal and can be developed internally, will only come from good compensation packages - and also development structures that don't roadblock staff from progression in their careers.