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>Even the faith economy makes little sense. It's hard to believe that one village can somehow supply enough belief to sustain numerous youkai and gods without issue, especially when you consider that even Old Hell, which is filled with largely forgotten and unknown creatures, was doing fine even before they started to appear more on the surface again.
While human faith is the deciding factor for the existence of supernatural creatures on Earth (Gensokyo & the Outside World), I don't think it makes sense to extend that to any of the "otherworlds" like Old/New Hell, Animal Realm, or Makai. Those, and their inhabitants, seem to exist independent of human belief. Even on Earth, all it took was some powerful magic to sequester a land area where the rules work a bit differently, and whose human faith is for internal use only.
Exactly how many believers a youkai/god needs to sustain their existence is honestly not that interesting of a question to me, when any such creature moving from the Outside to Gensokyo is doing so *while they still can*, and before their nature is too heavily altered by whatever faith remains on the Outside.