It’s so weird that the writers aren’t afraid of making an entire episode about morty’s sperm, while simultaneously being utterly terrified of changing the status quo

Wow, I never considered the fact that an uncertainty split didn't happen when Rick - as far as he knew at the time - gave his life for Morty's. That's a pretty touching detail.

'Rick basically became a redditors OC and it ruined the show' is what I got from this.

The growing nonchalance with everything that happens is what killed it for me. None of the characters can really engage with the situation because it doesn't register emotionally. It's just 'life' to them now. Every concept gets undercut.

"Inconsistency is defined as a lack of consistency"

I feel like the writers focused too much on Rick's badass edginess. Instead of the crazy ass sci-fi concepts.

Rick and Morty is a constant cycle of baiting the audience into caring about Rick, making it a joke and try to make the audience feel stupid for caring in the first place. And then AGAIN baiting the audience into caring, just to show the same feeling of superiority over their audience over and over again

It feels like Rick & Morty constantly changes itself not because of any genuine sense of progression, but because the crew don’t want the show to be viewed as predictable. So things being inconsistent is just their way of trying to keep the show fresh.

The writer of pickle rick went on to work on Marvel's She-Hulk show, which is perfectly representative of the writing talent (or lack thereof) they're working with

Rick and Morty is a perfect example of when you let fan reception affect your writing

For all it's problems, I love the running gag in season 3 where the wind quietly whispers "loser" when Gerry is alone.

The world hopping from Rick also shows something else about him - this version of him is incredibly quick to give up. Instead of going to a universe where he found the cure and copying the cure from there, he specifically looks for one where he and Morty immediately died so he could replace them. He decides that actually saving their world is just too much work

Hey, I worked on this show for the first season, and my now-husband worked on it from the pilot through the end of season 2. I wanted to say it was really nice to see someone call these problems out. There were a ton of problems going on internally which lead to the jump in quality between the seasons that I'm not the person to comment on, but from two people working in the production trenches - we appreciated this review a lot.

I attribute the loss of direction and sudden inconsistency to the death of J Mendal. He was a line producer and an important part of the process, losing him must have put a lot of stress on the studio, plus that episode where Mr PoopyButthole goes on a monologue about life and loving people while they’re here seemed like it may have been some sort of tribute.

I think one issue is you equate Smartest with Wisest a lot. Rick is a lot of "So busy seeing if he can" and not so much "knowing if he should."