This has really made me realize how mediocre modern cartoons really are.

Compare Samurai Jack to something like steven universe, where the only way they can convey emotion is through crying, or young justice/tlok with their horrible teenage melodrama, or even other adult cartoons which are supposedly mature but rely on lowest common denominator jokes, this is something that can be considered art, but it will end in ten episodes and Gennedy is unlikely to ever get another opportunity to do something similar again.

Have western cartoons already died?