As much as people would love to think that localizers are getting what they deserve, this isn’t the bad ones being removed, it’s just cost saving.
I for one won’t pay for AI translation of anything since I can do that on my own if I wanted to read a machine translation.
I don’t know anything about the translation industry, but I’ve read a few manga published by Seven Seas. Have they always been one of the cheaper ones?
Is there an up to date tier list of publishes somewhere?
I don’t know the ins and outs, but they’re supposedly one of the worse companies to their translators and the actual translations:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-05-29/seven-seas-releases-statement-on-workers-union/.186135
https://twitter.com/_UW7S/status/1531626411605127169
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-04-26/why-seven-seas-altered-its-light-novels/.171956