Shirobako is also has an underlying theme that the best days of anime production are over. I already knew it was bad when Japanese animators go work in the Chinese/Japanese moblile gaming industry that have horrible freelancer conditions 70 hours of work a week and hardly have a good salary but that is better than what they have in the anime industry.
Shirobako is a good example it has 24 episodes a ton of people working on it (90)but they had to work on a budget of 4 million $, compare that to popular Western shows like the simpsons where the voice actors alone get 400.000$ for each episode and you probably end up with a total cost of an episode that comes close to a whole anime season serie.
Looks like the studio got some financial input from netflix for their newest production happy for them.
