I'm not going back to 4chan and I've been there since late 2005. There's not even nostalgia for the place left at this point. ALL boards were basically unusable with the sole exception of /a/ which had actual moderation and even there shit was seeping in. /vt/ was completely unusable. No actual issues with 4chan have been addressed of even acknowledged by the mods, and this all makes perfect sense because 4chan is focused on having a lot of traffic which in turn attracts many ad companies to shill their products on various boards, and on top of that a multitude of government agencies and psyop shit. The archive itself which some Anons see as a good thing is actually only there to archive posts which are them sold in bulk to AI companies.
Beyond the puerile and meaningless aesthetic changes that are seemingly coming nobody even mentioned the actual issues of spam, trolling, samefagging, absence of moderation, shitposting and so on. Nonoe of THAT will be fixed and THAT is the reason why 4chan is a dead imageboard. Culturally it is wholly sterile and astroturfed, and its system of no IDs and a "anything goes" approach to posting is thoroughly obsolete. It cannot exist on the modern Internet and we cannot pretend it's 2006 anymore.
This place has everything and here we can build an actual vtubing culture. Slowness? That is irrelevant because people are actually posting content, having fun, discussing their oshis and just being a community. I've seen how during dead hours we just talk about stuff and just hang out, and that's basically it. This is how things should be. The speed of a board is a worthless metric because just like on old /vt/ which was fast as shit 90% of it was just spam, trolls and shitposting. On /vt/ and 4chan as a whole (EVERY board was semi-functional at best) the noise has overwhelmed the signal to the point the noise became the signal. It was impossible to discuss and like vtubers on /vt/. /vt/ was a board where it was IMPOSSIBLE to talk about vtubing. I can't stress this enough. You're all still wearing some sort of nostalgia goggles for something that just didn't exist.
I'm having fun here, there is actual content and a sense of community here. This is where Western vtubing has found its home. And on holotower, despite me not using it. Shit stirrers and various forms of gerbils will screech against IDs, they will talk of "reddit" and of all sorts of nonsense only and solely because it has destroyed their shitposting, trolling, spamming career and way of life. This is why they're so pro-4chan. Trolls and similar know that without actual users who love something they cannot exist. They are parasites and that's why they want to corral Anons back into the milking pens of 4chan.
So no, I'm not going back there and nobody should. Hell, if you don't like this place go to holotower. 4chan is the worst and worthless place for vtubing, for anime, for ANY subculture or scene that wants to be authentic and alive. This imageboard as a whole has a lot to offer and is the solution to the obsolete 4chan system. I'm happy to be here and I'm staying here. The Internet is fun here.