Those tropes are so ingrained in anime, I believe that if we stopped, it wouldn’t feel “right”.

I guess, now that there’s more money for it, and updates technology allows for them to get around many of those early restrictions

In theory. The truth is anime studios are infamous for overworking and underpaying their enployees, in fact Japan in general doesn’t have very good labor laws. Nothing much has changed on that front. Unless it’s a big name studio like Ghibli or Ufotable, the anime industry will always cut corners to get new episodes out as fast as possible.