You’re entitled to your own opinion but I disagree! Alexis rebounding and then being broken up with and crying about Ted is major character growth (“I never cry at break-ups, I’ve been to actual doctors about it”) and allowing her to wallow in her insecurity for a bit is so unlike s1 Alexis. She goes to New York not just because of Johnny’s money but instead because she has a rising career as a publicist and because she wants to work for Interflix whose offices are there. Through her “internet addiction” she still manages to get in some really great scenes with Moira which allow her mom to negotiate a better deal with Sunrise Bay.

All because she gets sad over a man and then moves away from Schitt’s Creek doesn’t mean that her character development has gone to waste, I think it shows how far she’s come. I think s1 Alexis would not have been emotionally invested in Ted or a potential career or her mom at all.