It's not easy to control and everything has it's own set of policies. Just because you are not aware of them doesn't mean there aren't any. Even manga pacing can be slowed down by introducing more battle scenes or background stories. I don't see any difference.
I would pick the community to have more intellect. Most of the arguments I see doesn't make sense at all and people just try to show off their knowledge in anime but doesn't realize they are just clowns jumping around, when they actually search for their so called, said facts.
Most of the popular anime are for teenagers but most of the anime watchers are in the range 18-44, according to the latest statistics in Google. That explains a lot about how different the demographics are.