I'm convinced that a lot of the (mostly old now, thankfully) takes about English dubs being worse than the original Japanese VA boil down to 2 things.
Cringe dialog is the same cringe in both languages, but a foreign language gives the viewer a language and cultural buffer to hide behind. It's the same cringe people!
Non Japanese speakers have a hard time telling if Japanese VA is any good. How would they? Understandimg VA quality requires a nuanced understanding of language (inflection, word emphasis in a sentence, region, time period, etc etc).
Not saying that all, or even most, dubs are as good as the original language VA, but they are certainly of a similar quality level as a lot of other Western animation VA (that is to say, a generally accepted level of quality). And you cannot convince me that all anime has good original VA, that's just super unlikely. That would be like saying because America has Hollywood most movies made there have good acting.
I'm convinced that a lot of the (mostly old now, thankfully) takes about English dubs being worse than the original Japanese VA boil down to 2 things.
Not saying that all, or even most, dubs are as good as the original language VA, but they are certainly of a similar quality level as a lot of other Western animation VA (that is to say, a generally accepted level of quality). And you cannot convince me that all anime has good original VA, that's just super unlikely. That would be like saying because America has Hollywood most movies made there have good acting.