I'm about done with Shishiro Botan.
Basically, everything I like about her is either stagnating or outright on the decline, and there doesn't really seem to be any kind of hope in sight.
In the following full-on schizopost, I'll go over these things, what went wrong, and allow myself some reasonably plausible narratives at points, please bear with me. Also, I'll skip out on proving that she did actually have these good things in the first place, I can do it if someone wants me to specifically, I know a lot of examples to back me up too, and it's not like I'll ever need these for anything in the future, sad as it is.

stream hours

Let's start with the easy stuff. The stream hours. They absolutely went down the shitter. I am well aware of the existence of naigumi and other holos who just fuck off for months. I would have no problem with literally any amount of hours she'd cut for medical reasons, even if all streams go away for however long is needed. Cutting half to 2/3 of your stream hours for supposedly vocal training/recordings for half a year to a year, showing quite some improvement(Lioness Pride went from being a song centered around synthetic farts, to a solid emotional song, and then Botan actually made the song her own and made it sound cool in the recent VARK), then saying that now that she had her share of singing it's time to move on to making videos, and maybe her own content format. No acknowledgement how much better she got, ambition to do anything with the singing, just into the trash it goes, I guess she tried it.
Now, for the actual streams we do get, let's add to the picture her being tired part of the time, and just not having the motivation to actually do anything, picking casual games just to chill after the long day at work and going into her unfocused mode way earlier than she used to, coupled with ending streams early for health reasons, which by the way I fully support, and you get 2022 Botan "streams".

fun in collabs

She didn't really become any worse at collabing, but she's been indifferent to outright apathetic towards reaching out to new people. I remember her frustratedly letting slip that "if she'd collab with ENs, she'd just do L4D2 again", which unsurprisingly is exactly what happened, not even only with ENs. On top of the groups she had a year ago, she now also has ShubaChocoLunaTan, which is fun in itself, but puts absolutely zero pressure on her and requires no effort from her, which seems to be her preference now all-around. Gone are any attempts at spicing things up, she'll slack even on thumbnails, forget making a fucking intro video which was rare even in the best of times. We can't have any stakes either, just low-effort slop with the same people. No HoloX solo collabs except Lui, no Flare, no Ayame/Aqua(Arcane watchalong was technically last year), fuck, basically no new collab partners in almost a year, good going, "collab queen".
Another thing that sticks out like a sore thumb now is that her techniques of throwing and rigging collab results in general are now completely out in the open, because she can't be bothered to put in the absolute minimum effort to obscure it, I can't suspend my disbelief anymore with this shit. I could go a bit more in-depth here, but SCLT and ShishiLuna Clubhouse 51 is just jarring in how badly she did it there. Yeah, I completely believe she played air hockey properly in every instance, and she mastered bowling on the go too, sure, fuck yourself. Not that she can't learn very fast or anything, but this here was a clear cut case of pretending to be retarded and not even really trying, which I'm just tired of at this point. Special mention to collabs with Marine, I have no idea why does Botan go out of her way to throw horrendously every time, but it's a clear pattern for whatever fucking reason, I don't even look forward to any collabs with her when they come up anymore.

free-spirited

Botan never posts schedules, and generally does whatever she wants. If the other party doesn't say anything, even collabs can get quietly delayed, it's pretty impressive, actually. I've been shitting on people who try to get her to play some specific game or run around saying she "promised" to play X and then never did. Botan's biggest commitment is to never commit to anything. The thing is, though, that there are limits to when you can expect people to not expect you to do something. If you spend literal months talking at the end of every stream that you want to play Valorant on Twitch, then after all the time ditch it after 1 stream, that's fine, fuck valorant and twitch. When you spend about a month talking about doing NG+ in Elden Ring, then it just ends and you never bring it up - I'm for it, doing it on stream wouldn't be good content, replayability isn't really that high. But there is a problem -

If you just keep running your mouth day after day, week after week, and then it's fucking nothing - how am I supposed to actually trust anything that comes out of that mouth? Testing the waters about all kinds of games she never touches, talking about things she never does - maybe she does it to gauge the audience reaction, put pressure on management for premissions, whatever. But this has nothing to do with me, I'm not going to get excited over any of that horseshit, I'm not expected to hold her responsible for anything, so why would I even care at all? Her twitter or her aftertalk about things she "wants to do" might as well not exist. That also extends to things she wants to do with other holomen offline - some of these happen, plently don't, why should I care?
I remember Botan saying she put in a lot of work in the first half of the year, and that the result of her work will surely make us happy, whether she meant it or not. I'm anything but, I'll just add that to the list of her lies, I'm yet to see her upcoming birthday live but I think it's safe to call it already.

yab-free

Botan is one of the more yab-free holos, this is not an accident, and it does come with a price. Botan isn't Flare who would have an autistic episode over something she doesn't like, she's geared for efficiency and goal oriented, so she'll do the exact things she needs to do to put anyone who'd want to pick a fight with her in an extremely weird position to begin with, all the while not coming off as manipulative. "It's entirely on me for wording this like that, it does come off that way, but I'd be thankful if you clipped this part too just to avoid misunderstandings", she has everyone on a short leash and will go over all and everything in detail, multiple times. Yet another part of her preventing any possible drama is in her self-restraint and filtering what she's saying in the first place. I can't exactly gauge how much it hurts her solo content, but you can pinpoint a drastic shift in her collab behavior when she finally threw senpai-kouhai structure into the dumpster, and then there's PEBOT as a good reference for what no-filter Botan can be like.
All in all, her effort here implies that she does actually care about something - about steering clear of drama, about not coming off as rude, entitled or arrogant, or paint a target on herself in any other way and just hits home the idea how little she cares about other things like the actual streams themselves, which leaves me dumbfounded and bitter.
The timeloop of apexfaggotry is also another thing she keeps revisiting time and time again, and then there's the infamous "not taking part in tournaments" thing. Just to be clear, I think she didn't actually contradict herself by joining the BF thing, because she always worded her reasons for not joining tournaments in a slippery way, and never really committed to anything. The BF tournament was the perfect "low stakes with a lot to win" for her and so she jumped on it and got everything she could short of winning the T-Shirt out of it. She's justified to do so, you can't really fault her for that. If she'd have a consistent line on what she joins and what she doesn't, I'd respect that a lot, but that would leave her less space to maneuver and make shit up as she goes, so tough luck, non-commitment bullshit all the way. Remember Mario Kart tournament? Watch her have an excuse to skip every single one of these like she already does. Or she'll just stop caring, that's also on the table right now.

good at games and cool

I'll just pile these into one paragraph because they're usually intertwined and decline here is very simple - to show off your skill or how cool you are, you have to actually stream, and then to overcome actual challenges, or persevere in a situation that has some kind of stakes. Botan simply avoids both, or rather, all 3, even streaming. Distinguishing herself in some way comes natural to her if there's a possibility to do so, yet she just goes elsewhere, fuck me for wanting to see her shine I guess. I'll do a little addendum about her shortcomings as a gamer, I've noticed a few things and now's as good a time to share these as there will ever be, but she's the real deal and would kick my ass in most games I don't have over a thousand hours in.

tl;dr

Botan's priorities lie elsewhere, if they even exist. I can't trust her words as she keeps saying things she doesn't mean, I can't even trust her actions in many cases. Even if she got crushed by the existential weight of her relatives deteriorating health as her own catches up or whatever else, I just can't watch this, neither can I support her in anything she does when she clearly just doesn't give a fuck about it anymore, which contrasts wildly with things she still does care about - like control over narrative to keep drama away.
I never mentioned sponsored stuff here, as an SSRB I know shilling is just a part of her personality, so it doesn't really go either way in her not caring or faking things, just to be clear here.
I'm not mad about her shitting on the hard work of other girls by proxy when she shits on her own hard work - I'm mad that she shits on my oshi's (her own) hard work, I'm upset about missed opportunities, I'm upset this doesn't make any sense and it never had to be this way, but it's all fucked up and I can't trust her to fix it, or anyone really. I'm upset I've witnessed a miracle I never thought possible and now it's fucking itself into the dirt.
This Usaken Festival is very symptomatic of the current Botan, and I can only hope it goes terribly wrong to cause some change, yet in reality it'll be ok-ish through the efforts of others as she erodes the goodwill she built through honest work earlier.
I remember what she declared as her goal/dream. Now she rolled out a bunch of new stuff after this anniversary, even making a long dramatic pause before revealing one of the things she wants, baiting whether she'll tell us or not. She either doesn't remember, meaning she lied back then, or already walked it back for whatever fucking reason. I'm not playing any more of these guessing games, fuck you.
I still think PEBOT is the best thing to ever come out of Hololive, I enjoy it even now, I'm just beyond tired of Botan's shit. I'll watch her birthday stuff early september too before trying to move on for good, I owe her that much after these two years.
Hololive is full of really good girls, Towa's story from being in the absolute dumpster to being surrounded by friends and fruits of her labor, or Pekora having grown so much she can be the cool calm senpai handling others like children in Rust, it really warms my heart, but I should just move on altogether, with what's going on with the girl I care(d) for the most.

The promised addendum, Botan's flaws as a gamer:
To get the obvious out of the way - she's not good at tetris, her driving skill is hololive average-ish with little practice in marika, she doesn't have much practice in fighting games either. Her 3D platforming skills, especially third person, can be pretty unstable. She just doesn't work well with stealth games.
She has an issue with spatial awareness/object permanence, where she'll forget about something existing shortly after it's out of sight, you can see a lot of that in her Elden Ring, rolling backwards into a wall is her favorite type of death. Her fight against Mohg is especially riddled with that, understandably so, since the arena changes basically the entire fight.
Another issue is "if enemy doesn't move it doesn't exist", this plagued her Hotline Miami heavily, but is present here and there across different games.
I'm getting mixed signals on how well does she do as a squad leader. She quite obviously suffers from "not my problem" brain rot when she's not, there have been a lot of things she could do in EDF Miosha squads, even when she was already alone, that would actually allow her to clutch the victory, but she'd do nothing unless ordered, or some outright detrimental shit like trying to revive Koyo. When she is in charge, it's still confusing, she survives alone pretty damn often in L4D2, but it also seems like one of her objectives possibly along with giving others a hard time. During the BF tournament, she wasn't officially in charge, but comms were basically on her most of the time, which did look good.
That's about it. Her reaction speed and precision are insane, she adapts on the go and as soon as you force her to use her brain your puzzle is as good as solved. She also performs better under pressure than without it, it's really weird. I'd really want to see her in all her glory, but I'm just done at this point.