This is just an excuse. There needs to be a hard english sub and then keep other languages can be single video with different text file. Deleting 80% good things only to keep other 20% happy should not be an excuse.
Only english is the most popular and just keep it. Most of the good hard subs are made for english and that is what people want.
That is exactly what I thought and I am not even a native English speaker. My English is infinitely better than my Japanese though, so if I cared about anime I’d much rather watch a good English version rather than a bad German one