Why on earth would I want to go back to having only a few actresses appearing in everything, mostly just rehashes of the exact same scene for 3-4 major studios.
That was the "golden age" only because what came before it was even more limited by comparison. So many more attractive women in JAV now, and actresses doing more varied content. SOD never had more variety or different kind of scenes than they do now. They have a little more variety now, but are one of the most bland companies and always have been. The only advantage they ever had were their actresses locked into doing a dozen pictures with them in their primes. Not to mention they spent massively on marketing for them (looking back without rose colored glasses most are not as good as I remember).
Frankly SOD is in decline because everyone else is making more interesting porn than them now. They only were so popular when they were the only pony show in town with the best ponies locked into exclusive deals. Yuck, screw SOD I hope they go out of business. That guy is stuck living in the past when he could control girls' careers from start to finish practically.
Blaming piracy is a weak argument too, as if it wasn't just as easy to find pirated content 10 years ago.
Having studios like SOD decline is great for the industry at this time, it creates a vacuum where others willing to innovate and make interesting JAV can take advantage. Production costs are down we don't need everything being made by a few big companies any longer.
All i want is stars back the top girl that is a pure idol(3-4 major studios), and then the dirty one that does everything with everyone(Maria Ozawa/Ai Uehara) Like i think legit stars help the industry, it keeps performers like Aika. and the Diva Rion/Shion away from the top, heck if Tsubomi went free lance again we'd have one of those holes at the top filled
Looks which are important, aren't the biggest factor to me. I mean i will take an average looking performer, that perfoms great over a great looking actress that isn't a good performer. Also S1S1 has done the same thing the past 16 years, use the contract girl formula, and they are still top dog, SOD was never the one trick pony kind of company, when they did the SDMT stuff they where the most creative/risk taking company around.
Having studios decline like SOD is not great for the industry, it'll just mean the Hokuto Corporation(owners of S1S1, DASD, Muteki, Moodyz, Attackers, Madonna, Idea pocket, and many more) would have no competition at all why would Hokuto try to be more interesting if they have no competition? Like there's really no way that Japan home Media(Max-A, Alice Japan), or the prestige company has any chance to compete