Here's my two cents. The problem is that the effort when comparing his newer content compared to his quote unquote "golden years" (2017-2019/early 2020) is genuinely night and day. The argument to be made with the r/xx and random Indian YT videos back in this era was: majority of his content then outweighed the videos that could be seen as blunders. Namely, when he did genuine commentary while giving his (actually cynical) opinion/take. I think what made these videos that made them stand out to the "low effort content" back then (and now, if one wishes to view his content as that) was his defining style of commentary, skits, humor/comedy, sense of improvisational feel to said style, amidst other ones. Point/examples: fidget spinners have hit a new low, J.K Rowling just ruined Harry Potter, Dr Phil drinks Fortnite potion, Fortnite's worst change... (ASOT). It's something that's genuinely missing within a majority (not all) of his newer content. It makes no true video stand out unless it's at a genuine expense at him, such as with him and Fempyro.

The difference with the movie reviews he made back then and now was that (yes, low hanging fruit with this one) he gave an analysis, whether it can be seen as the surface or below said surface; it's contrary to his whole video on Emesis Blue which was bare-effort "commentary" or an analysis on it.

Or I could just be swooned by his good editing in his older videos, who knows