Aside from the fact that it seems a few people here have lost the plot...it really does seem like Yoshiki's read the forum or has been shown a lot of the criticism from online sources like this. If so, good. It's healthy to see both sides. Honestly, nothing in that entire statement surprised me much. (...) Also, I don't know how much I believe in blaming the "agent/promoter", we all know Yoshiki has a lot of power when it comes to HIS band. To me, it's like he's hit a dead end with his condition and almost sees pursuing a new album as a waste of time....OR this is just another drama-filled post because he is also very cryptic in what he's saying. Eluding to "big news that he can't speak of right now". The guy is extremely confusing and nothing short of a PR nightmare.
Probably doesn't read the internetz himself, but he's very likely to get his PR team to send him weekly reports of what's being said about him around the world. Press, Youtube stats, Reddit, fan forums, social media platforms, etc. Or at least that's I do here at my boring PR job. Wouldn't surprise me if it kind of felt like a punch in the stomach sometimes.
I might disagree on the agent thing, though. The management behind something as huge and profitable as X Japan is quite monstruous. Not only can they kind of take over your artistic direction, they might actually make their own view legally binding through a myriad of contracts and stuff. You want to be promoted and to make your thing profitable? Sign here and a team of 100+ people who know nothing about you as an artist will try their hardest to make you profitable, understandable, easily explainable, palatable and sufficiently entertaining. The counterpart, though, is that
they decide what you do, say, don't say, play, hint at and whatnot. And while he sounds like the kind of dude who would throw a tantrum/go on a rampage/fire everyone, things are not that easy when that much money and legal work is at stake.
Again, not sure if that's the case, maybe not. X Japan's most recent work is decent. The film was decent. Yoshiki has managed to remain rather true to himself throughout the years. But then there's stuff like Coachella, songs like Born to Be Free, the unexplainable dancing around the new album, the extra drama, the obvious ravine between him trying to seize the American Dream in LA and the rest of the band living rather low-profile and mostly inactive in Japan... you can't help but wonder if he's still the one in control and if he can still talk about a "band" and of Yoshiki, the artist, versus Yoshiki the moneymaking puppet.