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
If seven seas is publishing something it’s not worth reading. They’ve been caught doing censorship multiple times. Go look for literally any other way to enjoy what you are into.