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I would say the 2010's and 2020's are /the worst/. There is no variety now, the consolidation of studios has directly lead to a neverending strezm of reboots and sequels, original features and series fail regularly due to partisan "talents" working on them or the general audience's lack of interest in new ideas, traditional animation and stop motion are all but dead, and in the background of it all a communist confederation of the mentally ill are intentionally torching down pop culture. I'll take the Snorks, the Super Seven, and The Penguin and the pebble over the shit peddled to us now anyday of the week.
People beating a dead horse by pointing the finger to the 70's and 80's are overlooking the brightspots of the era. The Bakshi movies, the slow exposure of anime to the west, the rise of Japanese/Western co-productions, even those much derided and detested toy cartoons spumco-fags rage about so much opened the floodgates to better writing in the 90's. For every smurfs clone and scooby copycat you'd get some significant writer or animator's foot in the door (like Paul Dini or Milton Knight), and fwiw the goofy cheap cartoons of the 70's and 80's still have some funny and endearing moments.
I'll never understand why people who shit on old HB, Filmation, or Ruby Spears styled shows have this retarded expectation that all televised animation should have stood toe to toe with the golden age theatrical shorts that preceded them when these two varieties of cartoons existed to serve different purposes and entertain different audiences. The theatrical shorts of yore are considered classics for a reason but buy and large were not intended for child viewing.