There's some genuinely great stuff coming out still and though I haven't really watched anime in the last year, I feel like the trend for leftist messages in anime has been growing stronger. Decadance was basically just a giant metaphor for capitalism that the creators even outlined in a reddit AMA. Almost everything Trigger has had a hand in has strong leftist messaging except Darling in the Franxx and they were basically just hired to do the animation which was fine, it was the homophobic, hyper procreation messaging that was terrible.

I also really enjoy seeing how the messaging in kids shows continues to evolve. Precure had some good representation of a guy that liked to be feminine and was able to transform into a precure without it being a joke, something that only a few years prior was treated as a joke. The shows generally have a bit of a girlboss vibe to them and while I won't watch every season, when the show gets it right, it works. You have things like Gegege no Kitarou which also are surprisingly aware of class struggle with an episode featuring an immigrant worker being exploited by the factory boss and being subjugated to near slave conditions, they don't let him punch the guy, but he still gets comeuppance. Nezumi Otoko almost always fucks shit up when his greed gets the better of him leading him to basically just become the corporate face of a lot of conflicts. You had a point where the show also outrights states that Japan was the bad guys in the Pacific War/WWII.

I do genuinely agree with Miyazaki that there is too much reliance on tropes and people using other anime as a reference point. The most memorable stuff in recent years has taken its own unique approach to stuff and I do hope that the medium can benefit from better ideas and new approaches.