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RTD was never a good writer. Just look at his series finales, only the first two are good and even then Doomsday is completely carried by the emotional impact of Rose leaving, it wouldn't be good otherwise. But he was a good showrunner. He kept the writers under control and was able to shit out some pretty decent stuff himself - the mediocre episodes of that era are very inoffensive. The nostalgia certainly plays a part, you can see when they were trying to do the whole gay representation thing with Captain Jack, but it was ok because the other things in the show made up for it, and even in Jack's case he wasn't even a bad character. You had fun little things like the series "code word" too.
Moffat is the opposite. He actually has it in him to be a good writer, but he's an atrocious showrunner. He's only good at self-contained stories on a smaller scale. Hand him too much control and watch things go to shit as you realise that he cannot write characters (all the men are cucked soibois, the women bossy feministas, with no distinction between them), he cannot do story arcs (muh crack in the wall), cannot resist the urge to make every companion the most important girl ever (muh girl who waited, muh impossible girl, tbf this shit started with Donna too) and he absolutely cannot stop himself raping the lore. Because Moffat is a DW fan, he took his chance and incorporated his fanfiction into the show. Moffat's one redeeming feature was that he still didn't turbocharge the race stuff until his very last series, it was just gay stuff until then which was par for the course with DW. Chibnall is basically all the negatives of both RTD and Moffat without any of the positives.
Of course, DW has always been a liberal leaning show, so we shouldn't be surprised, but I would be very surprised if people look back on the current series in 15 years time with comfy nostalgia. It's just bad, man. No woke politics can change that. And it's also worth adding that "wokeism" is relatively new even within liberalism. Older liberals don't like it either. So here we are. I haven't watched DW in 6 years. I think it needs to die, and I'm not sure if there'll be another reboot with the way things are going.
