Also I will never understand the obsession people have with the Opening and Ending sequences lol that baffles me. Most of the time it's unique music or anything like that, I think the last sequences I watched back in the day were Twelve Kingdoms and Outlaw Star and I liked those because they were actually part of the lore a bit and fit the mood of the shows.

I agree, I find them to be most of the time to just be padding and skip them, sometimes some anime swap them to fit with the episode which is nice. I think why they have them is that most of the time there is not a lot of interesting music in the episode themself and anime is all about trying to dip into several markets at once (in regards to merch).

Edit: Speaking of trying to dip into multiple markets with one product, I'm seeing the same with lots of indie games with e.g plush's and other stuff and I cannot for the life of me figure out how that is a profitable market, perhaps the weeb market and modern western market has turned into the ultimate consumer xD

What insults me at times is when they clearly don't even render the frames properly because it was such a lazily done job by someone who clearly did not want to be there talking things like how the characters don't have proper shaders on them and the rigging seems to be barely done correctly. I'll be honest I barely read the manga, anime is one of those things I enjoy de-stressing to because I can watch it and calm my brain down. Probably should read some manga but at the same time the western market is so shit lately the anime studios have been putting out literally anything these days.

Sad thing is that even the hack job are better than the west most of the time xD