The Simpsons continuing after Season 11
Even by then it was a shadow of its former self, but it was still worth a watch. After this, though, it's just plain crap. There's the odd joke here and there that'll get a laugh, but the show as a whole has been a shambling zombie for almost two decades now. It's probably not fair to plant the blame at Al Jean's feet, but worth mentioning that the show started going to **** once he became the sole show runner.
Benioff and Weiss losing interest in Game of Thrones
It became so apparent around season five that the show runners were losing interest in the biggest show on tele. Season five is the first bad one,
big dip in quality. Season six is mostly propped up by the Battle of the Illegitimate Children, but is otherwise worse. Season seven is generally pretty bad and rushes a whole bunch of stuff. And then there's season eight... Oh boy, season eight...
Benioff and Weiss clearly had no passion for the show anymore, and were too preoccupied eyeing up a Star Wars job and that alternate history Civil War project, so they decided to just get it over with and fart out a final season that has ruined the show so much that it's legacy now is 'That **** fantasy show that wasted everyone's time'. Why didn't they hand it to someone else who actually cared? Why did HBO not just fire them and replace them? It's like they did it out of spite, and since the abysmal final season they've since had all of their publicly announced projects cancelled, for obvious and good reason.
343 Studios taking over Halo
Maybe things will improve in the future. They've not been doing a terrible job with the Master Chief Collection on PC. Not been doing the best job, either, but it's better than literally everything they've done before. Halo 4 is a complete retcon of the entire mythology of the franchise, has a dog**** story that
could have been genuinely heartwrenchig and emotional, and changed the art direction to actual vomit on a screen that someone pissed on. It also introduced a whole host of new enemies and weapons that are so out of tune with Halo's gameplay that 343 themselves did a GDC talk about how bad they were. Halo 4 is dog****.
But then they went above and beyond with Halo ****ing 5. Everything that was wrong with Halo 4 was doubled down on in 5, and the few good things about 4 were removed entirely and replaced with the mucus dug out of a gangrenous wound. I can't say enough bad things about Halo 5, it really is ****ing abysmal. It's the Skyward Sword of Halo, the Other M, the Ringo.
In between these they signed off on a remaster of Halo 1 that butchered the art direction somuch the game genuinely looks better on the original graphics and has lost so much of its mystique and atmosphere. Then there was the calamitous release of the MCC on Xbox One when the game flat out didn't work for over a year.
It's been rough... But, like I said, MCC on PC has been going more or less fine and 343 seem to be pretty open to acknowledging that Halo 5 was a piece of ****. So who knows.
****ing fire Frank O'Connor, though. **** you, Frank. Ancient civilisations are only good when they stay mysterious. Stop putting Forerunners into things, for God's sake