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Not familiar with the current drama, but the game already got an official japanese translation. So I understand people thinking that "I don't want to work with a translation team because my artistic vision" is a shitty excuse on Toby Fox's part, because it is.
In fairness, Toby only did the Japanese translation because he himself is fluent in Japanese, so he could directly check the localization team's work.
Without the ability to do that, then his perfectionism gets in the way - he'd kinda just have to trust the output and the interpretation of the localiztion team without being able to hands-on read and modify it himself, which he did do for the Japanese localization.
You can take from that what you will, but it was a more detailed answer on his part than simply 'because my artistic vision'.
That's fine, but he could still work directly with the translation team if localization integrity is so important to him, otherwise his games are only ever gonna have english and japanese localization.
Tbh I don't understand why that's a major problem. There's tons of media that is only available in Spanish, or in French, or in Chinese, or whatever. Some stuff you've gotta know the language it's available in to enjoy it. It'll be ok if people who don't speak English or Japanese don't play Toby Fox's games. There are a million JRPGs out there.