We know animes work with extremely tight budgets (like that one article about seiyuu not being stars demonstrated), and generally speaking extremely tight budget and talented people don't fit well together. Maybe the directors don't feel like investing money in people whose only job would be to criticize their job...

A fatal flaw, no doubt, as any decent Hollywood director could tell, but one that might be easily overlooked until external criticism starts to flow in once the show has been released.