>>97181310I'm not much of a fan of older CN and most of those cartoons from that era have their fair share of problems as well, but they are not exactly the same issues for the most part.
Look at SU and AT, both of those are modern cartoons that try to build a world, but both of them are struggling to do so. Look at Finn's arm and the Gem Cluster, both of those fell flat into being nothing more than a failed footnote in the long run.
And I'm not even talking about wanting cartoons needing to be deep. Cartoons show off a bunch of things that look cool and that it might actually lead to something changing, but it never actually does change a thing and if it does, you get things like Flame Princess or Peridot. People tell me that comics never lead to anything, but cartoons do the exact same thing as they do, and honestly, cartoons are hell of a lot more guilty of abusing status quo than comics or any other medium of entertainment for that matter.
