An Analysis of The Simpsons: Post Golden Age & The Movie

It feels like opinions on the Simpsons post season 9 are so universally accepted that they're unquestionable. So I'm going to question them.
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Stuff that I referred to/pictures I used:

Death of the Author by Roland Barthes - read it here
https://sites.tufts.edu/english292b/f...

Aspects of the Novel by EM Forster - buy it here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Aspe...

Top 10 Worst episodes of the SImpsons from Kotaku
https://kotaku.com/worst-simpsons-epi...

The TV Tropes page on Flanderization
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...

The TV Tropes page on Jerkass Homer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...

Rio Blames Tourism lag on Lisa Simpson - Houston Chronicle
https://www.chron.com/culture/main/ar...

BBC news - Simpsons apologise to Rio
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainm...

Antifreeze Poison found in 10 wines - New York Times archive
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/16/ga...

Pew Research - How US Religious composition has changed in recent decades
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/...

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church demonstrate at the Virginia Holocaust Museum on March 2, 2010. By JCWilmore - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Not quoted, but its a decent book I read recently and was on my mind a lot while writing - The Science of Writing Characters: Using Psychology to create compelling Fictional Characters by Kira Ann Pelican
Buy it here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Writ...