I keep reading theses kinds of assessments and no one seems to acknowledge that opening a book and reading it is actually kinda hard. Reading long form is incredibly high effort.

Sure. But company policy and failure to regulate employees are different things. They are both bad but they are not the same.

Although it seems likely that Crunchyroll uses an LLM for translation in some way, I wouldn't call that "confirmed" since that might be the result of an individual translator using it.