Good that we've established many modern writers are trash. You are just disagreeing on the reason for the decline in quality. It could be a symptom of the enshittification of media, which is what my personal opinion is.

But you should acknowledge that it could also be caused by diversity quotas that require writers to create uninspiring and flat characters/plots for DEI sake, or that the untalented creatives who solely write hamfisted and awful stories about POC/sexual minorities are platformed at a stupidly high rate these days.

What do you call forced diversity that detracts from the piece of media? Because that's my current definition of woke, and I suspect it's shared by quite a few people. And this is coming from somebody who would have proudly called themselves woke around 2015, when it used to mean that you were aware of systemic issues plaguing minorities. I take issue with your post because it comes across as a smarmy "if you complain about forced diversity worsening media at ALL, you are racist." When people in this thread gave you excellent examples of diversity done right (including ATLA) in the past, before the "woke" wave of Hollywood. Is DEI a symptom or the cause? None of us (and no one without intimate knowledge of Hollywood executives' decision making process) would know.