I mean i can sit here and suck off Kaneko all day but I'm not so single-minded that I'd blame everything wrong with the series now on him not working on it anymore, I'd blame some of the creative direction going in a direction i don't like as much on his absence sure, but Kaneko isn't one of the damn writers. I think the only game Kaneko was involved in the writing with was... Strange Journey, I believe. Maybe Raidou? Whatever.
Hell, I can't even completely fault Doi for putting out designs I don't like, he's not the art director as far as I know, so whoever that is, I'll direct my scorn at
or just throw eggs at Yamai, but executive producers either have all the power or don't do shit, and I'm not sure with him.