Ok, I've noticed something weird about Netflix and want to point it out. The shows can be heavy handed in their message is something discussed all the time, so that's not new. However, the animated stuff tends to be really good until the last season.
We have discussed how bad the Witcher is getting, but the animated story showing a few decades earlier is really good. Everyone has understandable motivations and mistakes, along with love, loss, and difficulty. I can't say it's perfect Witcher, but as a story it's quite good.
The Voltron remake was amazing until the last season. I just pretend that season didn't happen.
The most recent example is Cuphead. It fits the narration and ideas of the game so we'll, it feels like the game was based on the show. Once again, the last season and it's arc was dumb and didn't feel like the rest of the show.
Sure there are shows that fail immediately, but any time I am thinking about it, they aren't the common factor. I have mixed feelings about the Stranger Things Anime because of this.
So, what gives? Why are the animation teams doing this? How is it happening?
Netflix animation is weirdly inconsistent. They have have really good things like Klaus or F is for Family, the mediocre like Dragon Prince and Scrooge or the worst like Big Mouth.
I find it's more how much control a creator has over a particular series in how it's able to defy the guidelines of having to add in blacks and homos into a series. For Klaus and Green Snake for instance, they were foreign films that were already completed and Netflix just picked up distribution rights. F is for Family did have an ep or two focusing on Rosy but you can tell Bill was fighting for that 5th season to wrap everything up.
Dragon Prince though started out kinda interesting but has honestly lost me in how mediocre it's become. The timeskip in the latest season hasn't helped any.
But yeah, the longer a series goes on, the longer that Netflix has certain demands that have to be included or no funding.