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Remember in the non-canon bleach anime that time when Ichigo met that one guy in the menos forest who spent literally all of his life fighting hollows...and how it made no visible difference whatsoever?
Shinigami are very limited in number compared to plus souls and hollows. The ones who can cause serious mass destruction are captains and their lieutenants, who generally don't leave seireitei and command their divisions, or keep training. Way back in the first BLEACH arc, Byakuya had to make a move because Ichigo was an anomaly, and even then, he had to suppress his power manyfold before moving through realms.
So, assuming the Gotei13 really did want to exterminate all hollows, how would they move about it? Stark and Barragan had been around since before Aizen's gambit and they had enough power to pretty much destroy SS by themselves - sending captains to HM would leave SS vulnerable to surgical strikes, so it wouldn't be a viable option, but anything less would most definitely die horribly, as they almost did many times when fighting the Espada.
I, on the other hand, have a much more prominent question: does Ichigo's Zangetsu purify hollows? It is a quincy-powered sword, so it should have the same effect as Ishida's arrows, i.e. erase the hollow's souls from existence. When he purified Sora, he had used Rukia's borrowed power to do it, so that made sense...but what about everything he did after awakening from Urahara's deep shaft? What percentage of shinigami power is required to purify instead of kill, because arrancar also possess shinigami qualities. Are kido kills allowed, since they make no use of the sword? What's the minimum fee for soul disruption and how many years in jail are offenders due?
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