But you can't just brush off the pedantry that he didn't actually direct it. That's kinda important when we're discussing the technical aspects of camerawork.

The problem is that Tarantino was pretty involved in the process of making that sequence, from scripts to storyboarding to final editing, so it's really hard to tell where his influence ends and Production I.G.'s begins- he really might as well just be credited as the director. Kazuto Nakazawa is credited as the first unit director, but most of his work has been key animation with very little full directing.

Satoshi Kon is kinda a poor counterpoint since he's dead.

His movies didn't just disappear just because he died!

If what you're asking for is where the next generation of talented directors who'll take after Shinbo, Watanabe et al is at: Tsutomu Mizushima, Hosoda Mamoru, Tomohiko Ito(although talk about coming out from nowhere, from SAO to Erased? I know he worked on Monster and Death Note, but still), Sayo Yamamoto, Shingo Natsume and Naoko Yamada are a few names I constantly look for, and I'm sure I'm missing more.

Look, I know anime as it is now is just the extended marketing arm of the large corporations that make Japanese comics and videogames, but when you actually get down to it and look there's no small amount of talent that choose to work within those constraints and put out- well, if it's not art, it's damn close to it.