>HQ MTL with Sugoi
The amount of copium is crazy. Go to sadpanda and look at uploads that claim they have been done with Sugoi. It is still littered with errors. You want to translate it via MTL? Great. Just keep it to yourself imho.
Again you have to look at the bigger picture. If more and more people end up not caring cause its "good enough" this pervasive mindset is seen by corporations/bottom feeders that want to farm e-peen points and will be exploited. Because companies don't care, they just want the least amount of effort put in with the maximum profit. And since most of the fanbase is/will end up being this brain dead zero standard majority, the hobby ends up becoming a shallow husk. Want examples? I can give you a few.
1. Webnovel: It is all MTL now, they barely even take the time to edit it. Why? Because brain dead apes keep paying for it, or just donating because they want to "support". This goes beyond webnovel though. Almost every KR, CN, JP novel is MTL'd now.
2. Irodori: This fucker's DMCA aside (it has ruined the doujin scene), but I digress. His translations are either sometimes incorrect or censored
3. Random manga off the top of my head: Saikyou no Maou ni Kitaerareta Yuusha, Watashitachi, Rikon Shimasu, bocchi the rock, Tsui no Taimashi: Ender Geister, 99% of korean webtoons, etc....
Go to mangadex click on some manga and just check some uploads from people. You can find single person teams, so one person, upload translations of a series in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, while being ESL themselves. It's absolutely insane.
To quote a user from Sadpanda: SSincere
There's a concept in economics known as Gresham's law, which, stated most briefly, is "Bad money drives out good." What this means that if you have two different kinds of money in circulation -- one being "good money", like a silver coin whose face value is close to the bulk value of the metal, and the other "bad money", like paper bills that don't have intrinsic value -- that the "good money" will be replaced in circulation by the "bad money", as people hoard the "good money" for its bulk value and only circulate the "bad money". This can apply to two different monies issued by the same government, or to precious metal coinage versus debased/devalued versions of the same, or to real versus counterfeit bills. It's pretty easily illustrated in the US: prior to 1964, dimes and quarters were made with some percentage of real silver, and once the mint switched to base metals, the older, silver coins rapidly left circulation. They were collected for their bullion value, and the new, less valued coins took their place.
It's not a perfect fit, but the metaphor can certainly extend to these scanslations -- if a "good" fan translator has the time and opportunity to work on one of two doujinshi, one with no translation at all and one that already has a "bad" translation, from a purely return-for-investment perspective, it makes more sense for them to translate the new book. This is how "bad", and even "good enough", are the enemies of the "best".
On the other hand, at least bad money circulates.
I can't say if this is a bad thing or good thing definitively. As it has some pros. In my opinion, though, it is a negative all-in-all.
When things become popular/mainstream/corporations get their teeth in a hobby. It explodes. This is great because you see an initial boom of content that is well made, or in this case translated. As the years go on. Due to more and more people falling in love with the hobby, people want more content and want it sooner.
>More manga/anime/doujins/VN etc.. is getting made
>more people in the hobby
>want more content
>want the content fast
So this is what you get. Quantity over quality. I can consume more manga, anime, doujins than ever before. I'm never lacking content. On the downside the type of content being produced (in my subjective opinion) is sub-standard, and the translation of said content is lacking too.