I've been rewatching anime from 2010 and earlier and the difference in the quality of writing is staggering

Like hey I get it, animation-wise we're in a golden age and we're getting a lot of really good stuff out of Japan lately, but the writing on average has definitely taken a hit. A lot of it is absolutely bland and generic, and some of it is just straight up incoherent. I just rewatched Ergo Proxy, and it's like yeah this was a real labor of love for some people. It's not even close to my favorite anime, but it's a great example of your average show from back in the day being better written than your average show now.<br><br>I've always heard the excuse that there's just more anime now than ever before, so of course there's more bad shows. But it's not even that, I think there's just a lot less passion being put into anime now. It seems really, really rare to find shows like Psycho Pass or Gunbuster where it's obvious from watching it that there's a human being behind it who's trying to make a great story happen. I also think this is why a lot of anime is so formulaic now, like if someone finds a recipe that works they just keep churning out the same bs over and over.