I've dropped A LOT of shows because they were just bland, lecturing or just insultingly bad

And I think the numbers show that most people drop these shows pretty regularly too. Its why they always talk only about the first episodes or big finales "viewership" while ignoring that they might lose 60% or more watchers between ep 1 and 2, or season 1 and 2.

But I think we both know the large amount of people who just go on Crunchyroll or Mangadex or whereever and just click on what's on the front page to coomsoom because they've run out of other things to do and just want to be coomsooming. These shows are no different other than being spotlighted by the culture war, despite their viewerbase being largely not part of it.

There is a limit, as you said with Doctor Who, but its always very surface level rather than these themes the Leftists' ramble about. Doctor Who its entirely "does this main guy make me horny" while Star Wars its "does this lightsaber duel look cool" or something.