A similar thing happened with Pixar/Disney, where post acquisition Disney Animation Studios started to work a lot more like Pixar. Interestingly, Steve Jobs was also CEO and majority shareholder at Pixar up until that acquisition.

I'm grandfathered in with lifetime premium on PocketCasts which makes it difficult to consider jumping ship.

There's supposedly a 3 episode mini-series called Gundam Build Metaverse coming out in October, but I haven't heard anything about it recently.