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It doesn't try to derive meaning from real human experiences, only other anime, so at best it can become a copy, an imitation of other existing anime, and then those anime get copied and so on until you get anime that is just a series of disconnected cliches and tropes derivative of other anime without any substance.
This is the feeling I get when someone tells me they're studying Brandon Sanderson to be a better worldbuilder.
I couldn't have put it better myself, exactly this.