but a larger global market should not change what makes anime unique

It shouldn’t. The question is with everyone blabbing about it, and the Western market slowly creeping above the domestic, will anime change for the puritans?

Hollywood, video games, etc have all gone down the route of chasing every dollar over providing quality entertainment.

You might have answered my question. Should have been hush-hush IMO. All we can do now is keep our favorites to ourselves, push back when appropriate (choose your battles, don’t go looking for a fight with every whiner imaginable) and try to warn the Japanese of the attacks and infiltration we helped instigate.