1. I think that hooking up with Disney and in general chasing American viewers is to the show's detriment: things appear to now have to be flashy, exciting, simple, unsubtle. Though, for other things, I've tended to like ones that did better in the UK than the US, and I've generally not liked changes made to please US preview audiences.

2. Just recently, I saw in advertising that the fate of the whole universe is at stake, yet again. RTD has overplayed that card so very much, perhaps because he doesn't know how to make things actually exciting. Really, it's possible to make viewers care about much smaller-scale things if you actually know how to write drama.

3. I don't understand how Chibnall even got the job after dire nonsense like The Power of Three.

4. I almost never have a problem with the actors. Where I have criticism, in current Doctor Who's case I tend to suspect the script and direction. But, I don't know Gatwa from anything else so I'm in a poor position to judge in this case. (I do remember Jodie acting her heart out despite being handed most awful nonsense to say.)

I'm part of the falling viewing figures, I finally gave up, we've just had too many years now of mostly not what I wanted. What I actually wanted was a decent attempt at actual science fiction that cared more about being plausible and interesting than about being fun and relevant. For some time now, the show mostly hasn't felt at all believable and seems to have lost much of its cleverer, cunning side in favour of trying to be thrilling instead. Plots and solutions just don't seem to be all that smart and the successes seem to be less won than pulled out of nowhere. I wish they'd put the money into the writing instead of the production, expect more of the viewer, challenge us a bit more, instead of being so in-our-faces.

Sure, in comparison, I'm forgiving rather older episodes all manner of sins but at least they often seemed to be trying. As it is, I fear that current stories are mostly achieving what they wanted, it just isn't what I wanted. And, since the reboot, some stories still managed to try to be interesting and plausible, we even had some decent Christmas episodes, it's just that more recently the better ones just became far too rare among all the dross. I'll probably return if I hear of improvement in these respects, I finally just stopped waiting and hoping.

Even the classic series could be quite good at promoting a kind of liberal progressive view, especially toward inclusiveness and cooperation, as groups learned that the scary different people are just misunderstood and might be nice friends after all, but goodness it managed to be rather less preachy about it and sometimes managed to use the Doctor's not-human perspective to shine that light in perhaps a rather more timeless way than how the current show seems to be written.

(Perhaps this current season is better though, I might be unfairly maligning it.)