Last few seasons have been cookie cutter vanilla, except for a few goat episodes. The new city is a cartoonish bureacracy. The best original characters are almost all gone. None of the new characters except the captain of the guard has really stepped up and Daryl and Carol have turned into parodies of themselves.
Someone pointed out the goofy storm trooper armor and the dumb episode diaries (like GoT). I don't want to listen to 5 mintues of the director explaining the episode to me like I'm a 5 year old. Give me 5 more minutes of show.
I've been a fan since day 1 and post-Negan's fall, the show has been phoning it in. I'm trying to stick it out, but if it goes past this year I'm done, and definitely not watching spinoffs.