Anime Industry in Decline?

In a way Anime is just going through what all success forms of media go through, once too much money gets involved the companys get more wary of taking risks. The only way they know how to deal with that is new shows become more generic, they think it's a safer investment putting new characters in similar situations from other shows. The best example I can think of is Naruto, it's just Dragonball Z with angst flashbacks instead of stupidly long powering up sessions, and yet the mainstream anime community keep watching it.

There are still inovations going on in Anime and always will be, it's just got the same discouraging problem as every other media, the generic content crap gets the most community attention a lot of the time.

Edit: OK I'll admit that was a little harsh, but as for the drops in western sales that's down to often poor localization not just the online anime subs, am I the only one who thinks the west still mostly thinks of animation as a child's medium?

Jam it back in, in the dark.