You do realize indie devs consisting of one or two people are also businesses, right?
seems to me that there's some sort of critical mass they need to achieve first before the fuckery sets in, small teams aren't "evil" (yet) simply because they can't be (yet)
EDIT I mean "evil" as in "we want profit above all else, let's milk this cow dry until she dies"
Naruto (before the time skip) could have just ended after
::: spoiler spoiler
Sasuke left the village and joined Orochimaru
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but noooooo, they had to make almost 100 episodes of pure filler...
EDIT: Bleach could also be cut in half and be better off. On second thought, almost all shonen seems to be like this
whoooosh