Marvel & DC went woke. So people switched to manga.
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Video games went Worldwide near thirty years ago and it took 20 of those before the Japs starting vaguely catering to the West with some of their series. Manga has a long way to go and a lot more marketshare before it reaches that level.
Especially as, most of these problems are only in the biggest titles from these companies. Wherein many of the problems are completely absent in their lower marketed, and sometimes unexported, ones. Meaning the rot hasn't even completely taken over the company. Because Jap companies aren't like Western ones with single titles every few years. They have multiple per year inhouse developed, with dozens more published by them as well. Shit Squeenix has been behind every Yoko Taro game, which is offensive to every sensibility the woke have.
Its certainly going to happen eventually, but it has a lot of obstacles before it completely takes over.
They have already starting to skip volumes or cancel some titles (Ayakashi Triangle), shonen jump has quietly abandoned fanservice (shonen jump plus), etc
One of the biggest manga of the last few years (Kaguya-sama) had a spinoff created just for fanservice and lewd jokes. Web manga artists are opening pixiv accounts just to draw hentai of their characters for people to enjoy. Heck web manga as a whole are giving cancelled titles the ability to be continued regardless if the company won't. Shit every season of anime is still dominated by the popularity of its hot waifu with no signs of that changing with how much it is blowing up formerly niche titles (Call of the Night, Dress-up Darling, Tomo is a Girl).
I don't doubt it is happening in some places, I simply don't believe it'll make major waves on the industry as a whole for a bit longer due to the nature of the industry itself.