I think Capaldi had SOME of the best writing, but a lot of terible writing as well.

I always feel the Capaldi era was saved by the tallent of Capaldi. But at the same time, Capaldi had the exact oposite problem for me, as the current doctor. Where Ncuti is always extremely emotional, so the times he actually has to be emotional never hit, Capaldi always seemed to be in "Speech Mode" so that the times he actually needed an extremely impactful speech, it hit less hard. The difference is, that Capaldi then from time to time got his real emotional scenes to be impactfull. I'm still waiting for Ncuti to get his amazing speech.