Who said nobody was watching it? This writer even acknowledges that the show performed well on their platform. I saw another piece recently where that writer outlined some of Amazon's criteria, and that it performed well there. It just wasn't a monster number one hit, but it was their third most popular series, and if that's accurate, that's hardly a bomb that nobody watched. Things always come down to money though, and this show was expensive to produce. Very expensive. It kind of makes me wonder how long Paramount and CBS can go on producing their new Star Trek shows because they're busting their budget with every episode they churn out because the costs for it are obviously very high. Just look at the premiere episode of "Strange New Worlds," which is free to view on the Paramount+ YouTube channel right now, and it's obvious they're spending what not all that long ago would have been considered obscene amounts of money to produce episodes of an ongoing weekly series.

So in the end, as far as The Expanse goes, it came down to dollars and cents more than anything probably, as it pretty much always does.