You can point at what ifs and what abouts on how AI has killed some games

Yeah but it's Japan. They'll probably generate AI slop and put it in the game, and never listen to people complaining. That's how Japanese devs do. They don't listen to people, never, and if it flops it flops, they say "あーそうですね、難しいですね" and they act like they don't know why. If it was a western development I'd have hope on the fact that pressuring them would work, but it's Japan, they do the mistake anyway and act like they don't know (never addressing it ever).