The Waking Dead’s Biggest problem was that they insisted on having 16 episodes every season, which is why there are so many boring ass episodes of people doing nothing, bottle episodes focused on characters nobody cared about, and characters constantly doing dumb shyt that makes no sense to get them into trouble to pad out run times/episodes
I have always said that TWD would easily be one of the Goats if every season had the same general plot but was 10 episodes long, just trim away all that pointless fat and leave no room for shytty writing and boring characters, Season 1 was 6 episodes and that shyt was damn near perfect