Those of us who did notice mostly drifted away from the fandom.
IDK. I give them a lot of credit for rolling with Melanie Scrofano's pregnancy and writing it into the season at the last minute, but it can't have helped make the plotting easier. Although some of their other choices, like the way they kept trying to inject drama into Wayhaught, usually by making Waverly hold the idiot ball, can't really be attributed to that, so who knows.
I did like the new characters they added last season, though. (I haven't caught up on S3 yet, but I'm preparing to be annoyed there isn't more Merdeces.)
Re: TYWAU - femslash edition
IDK. I give them a lot of credit for rolling with Melanie Scrofano's pregnancy and writing it into the season at the last minute, but it can't have helped make the plotting easier. Although some of their other choices, like the way they kept trying to inject drama into Wayhaught, usually by making Waverly hold the idiot ball, can't really be attributed to that, so who knows.
I did like the new characters they added last season, though. (I haven't caught up on S3 yet, but I'm preparing to be annoyed there isn't more Merdeces.)