Long covid sleep problems are so awful. I’m hoping once my doc gives me an alpha blocker that it’ll help since I won’t have as much norepinephrine in my system all day. Between the french fried nervous system and not being able to eat many foods anymore, I am so over long covid.
This interview (officially English translated by Yamaha!) with syudou talks about syudou's very sincere passion for Hatsune Miku, the character. I don't think anyone would claim syudou makes very character-focused songs, and I don't think anyone would argue that syudou's vocaloid music is "about Miku" or anything like that, but he still argues that he thinks what people should do is get very emotionally invested in character when they make Vocaloid music.
In this interview with natalie.mu, PIEDPIPER, who created KAMITSUBAKI and is in charge of the Musical Isotope project (KAFU, SEKAI, etc) talks about some of these and related concerns, especially those shared by users of this forum, in quite great detail. This is a great read. KAFU was designed purposefully to not sound like a clone of a human voice provider, even though the developers felt that it was possible. Not all AI synths have this, but I think it says something that KAFU is the most popular AI synth and she was designed this way.
But with regard to this particular topic, the second page contains interviews with producers.