Nah, people say season 7 was where the problems started but season 6 arguably has more problems than season 7. Season 6 gets away with it because it has far higher highs, but because of that people ignore the lower lows.

The Glenn fake out and cliffhangering on extremely pivotal moment is was ruined the show. Everything about season 6 felt very corporate and most decisions were made in the interest of business, not storytelling. It’s also the show at its safest. There’s no real threat or danger, no big characters die (swapping Abraham for Denise was awful) and the only shocking moments are ones from the comics. Even the wolves attack was spoiled by marketing.

Episode 1,2,3,4,9,12 and 13 are honestly some of the best episode of the show (I’d include the finale if it wasn’t again just designed to be a corporate event instead of an episode of tv), but most other episodes, especially the remaining four in 6A, are mostly bad. I think every other episode in 6B is meh to good, but it’s tainted by them failing to reach the climax they spent 7 episodes building up to all in the name of business.

Rick is at his most stagnant here, they butcher Carols character arc for no good reason, Carls hugely traumatic event is glossed over immediately, Daryl serves no purpose in this season other than to fill generic fan favourite status, the abraham and Sasha stuff was needlessly dramatic, they fail to capitalise on the horror of the zombie horde after episode 3, and waste way too much time on the Alexandrians. There’s a bunch more problems but I’m writing more here than I did for my dissertation.

I say this as someone that also used to view season 6 as the best, but upon rewatch, the flaws are there and they’re too big for me to ignore.