User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 496: Forward, Review./@comment-27337151-20160803065130/@comment-1776824-20160804220913

I don't think you know how things work in the manga industry. He's under contract. He can't "let them have their way;" he has no choice. The editors have full control over what is released, effectively putting them in creative control. There's a lot of other things involved in the contracts, such as who owns the copyrights to the series, how long the series gets to go on for, that the editor has the final say on things, etc. And please don't forget that the president of Shueisha has control over the final rankings in the weekly questionnaires. Bleach could have been the most popular series in Japan and everyone could have loved the chapter, but we would never know because the president can, could, and probably did, put Bleach in the lower tier rankings. Not saying that it wasn't going to happen eventually (Bleach's end), but keep that in mind.