Right. The concern that Atlus is going to see an inevitable talent drain now, or they'll be pressured to scale their titles up unsustainably, or that they'll start to move into social/mobile gaming over a long period of time -- that's all pretty reasonable. But the idea that Persona 5 is going to come out and not be released in the US is dopey.
Fuck Persona 5, I think this is the real problem that more people should be seeing about this (not withstanding the issue that Atlus USA might be a pretty redundant entity in the grand scheme of things, leading that to get scaled back/cut even though Atlus USA's lack of transparency, somewhat, with the niche fanbase was one of its strong-points).