I don't know why we're talking about axe this or axe that when the new batch of series is so shit.
Baseball one sucks, running faggots is an abomination, ping pong looks like this >>280090944 so it's already guaranteed to be DOA, Otr's only redeeming quality is dwarf tits and loli legs but that might not carry it far as everything else is crap. Kaede is the only decent one of the bunch.
There's so many cushions that even underwhelming mediocre series like kill blue and shinobi, which in different times would have been killed by 20-30 chapters, are limping along because there's no competition.
Fuck me, jump nowadays is literally a race between disabled people. It's not even about being good, it's about being less shit than the axebait and that will keep you up.
Maybe yozakura was the first sign of this creative decay? It was mediocre as fuck and still got to like 200+ chapters and an anime, I guess that was the moment where jump started openly tolerating mediocrity