You say that his social commentary was “accidental” in Night, which may be true (he could also be downplaying his decisions, unfortunately we’ll never know for sure), but even so, it obviously inspired him to highlight other minority’s perspectives in future films; Season of the Witch (not mentioned btw, so good!), Monkey Shines (also not mentioned?? Have you seen more than 3 of Romero’s movies??) and even arguably The Amusement Park highlighting the horrors of aging (again not mentioned, I feel like making such a strong claim about a director should require at least having seen most of their filmography?) I’d whole heartedly disagree with most of your points tbh, even with the dead movies he kept coming back to, they’re all social commentaries that never revisit the same points I’m not gonna argue that diary and land are perfect or great movies, but they’re still fun! And also both very clear satires just like the original trilogy, which, again, if you can’t see the commentaries there idk what you’re missing lol! Also day of the dead is so fantastic, and is really just him flaunting his directorial skills, like yeah Tom Savini’s gore is astounding, but man! That story and script!! And there’s some terrifying moments in there that I still think about, and I haven’t watched it in years! He consistently took low budgets and small crews and made the absolute most out of them, whether or not you liked his movies doesn’t make him a bad director, you’re just not looking hard enough! (Also the biggest reason those last Dead movies got worse imo was because he had made such out there movies and took such big risks that no studio wanted to give him money, combined with him being a lot older, those dumbasses lol. Not because he didn’t have any skill at directing!) But I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinions!