>a bubble filled with animes and resulting fantasies where the girls go for losers is giving you seemingly fulfilling stimuli to the point where you don't want to go for 3dpd, resulting in your drive to improve yourself decreasing, and accordingly your manliness, -----
Pic related. Instead of living, you live through.
>is surrounding yourself with an illusion better than trying to constantly improve yourself in order to achieve the same results?
I think the question is wrong. Surrounding yourself with anime will not give you the same results as trying to improve yourself.
Imagine you being an old man, looking out of the window and thinking "I should have watched more anime".