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How should I say this, but you sound like a person still new to this 'sakuga' thing and you're overwhelmed by all the names being thrown banded about and your gut reaction is to hate it. I understand, it's sort of the reason why that one blogger made that post "Why I hate sakuga mads" it was a culture he couldn't understand and what do people resort to when they don't understand something? They find reasons to hate it.
Lets look at it another way, when a new anime is announced and people see the Director is Kawamori, they will often look into the director's backlog and try to draw conclusions based on past work and project them on to the new work. "Oh yeah Kawamori tends to like adding drama and sudden plot twists, that's such an Kawamori thing to do!" - With your line of thought we should just appreciate the story and not care who directed it.
Or lets say we find out the scriptwriter is, let's say it is Gen Urobochi. People might say "Oh its Urobochi, watch out, he's gonna make a dark and depressing story with deaths again!" With your line of thought we should just appreciate the story and not care who wrote it.
Or to go one even further, lets say we find out the lead antagonist is voiced by Takehito Koyasu, people might say "oh he's a great choice for this role, he's played some really great bad guys in the past!" With your line of thought we should just appreciate the characters, don't give thought to who voices them.
I mean, why should it be any different for animation and animators? The visual side of anime is often very understated and it's the least understood part of the medium. Surely we should be allowed to be excited Hiroyuki Imaishi did some new animation or be excited for Yutaka Nakamura's part in the new Studio Bones show?
I mean there will be people who are excited there is a new Kawamori show, there is a show being written by Urobochi or a show where Koyasu is voicing the antagonist. Heck there are people who will only watch said shows due to these participants. Should it be any different for animators? Should we value them less than other members of the staff?