In other random events in my life, I stupidly made a bet with my mum that if I grew out my hair long again, she'll get a tattoo sleeve (thus covering up an ancient tat with my real dad's name on. They've been divorced for years at this point and my mum remarried a few years ago, but she's been too preoccupied to get a coverup). Considering I've kept my hair short for a year now, growing it out will not be fun. 

I agree with everything said thus far. Professionally commissioning community artists and musicians, especially. The game itself is absolutely oozing with love and respect for the community that created the scene before the characters themselves. I will never understand the complaint of ProSeka feeling like a corporatized angle— I feel like you’d have to not have read any of the dialogue to feel that way. Compared to previous Project ◯◯ games, it’s night and day. DIVA and Mirai are games “about Miku”, where the Crypton characters kind of just exist as mascots in a toy box, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but Project Sekai is a game about people, producers, and fans. Before the game launched, I thought the OCs would be samey bushiroad drivel, but they’re so far from it. Each character is written with so much respect, the different “sides” of the vocaloid characters are well explored if you’re a Crypton character fan, and the “toybox” features are still there with dressup and tons of interaction available with your favorite characters in area dialogues. Even in the promotional livestreams/update summaries for the game, the developers and voice actors are genuinely excited about what they’re talking about— you can just tell. It’s so sincere.
I’ve seen a lot of “vocaloid is dead” conversation lately. I feel like that outlook ties all of these things together. Vocaloid is so far from dead. Not even the beginner creative spirit is dead. I just don’t understand that viewpoint at all. If anything is dead, it might be 2000’s/early 2010’s web culture, but the vocal synth community still retains a lot of that.
Somewhere, there’s an alternate universe where ProSeka isn’t a gacha game and it is widely praised and accepted. I think the attitude toward gacha in English speaking communities is much worse than in the Japanese speaking community. It never bothered me because I never spent money on it. But I can understand how it would bother others.