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It's not super surprising, by the time Hasbro took control the series was deep into a weird spiral where almost all the actual writing talent, which had never been super expansive but at least did have some people who could tell a basically competent story, was long gone and basically nobody knew why the fuck power rangers worked in the first place, along with having like 4826 awkward writing mandates to work around and a really fucking weird internal culture about the property itself. Unironically, despite having something of an ego, JDF was legitimately one of the few people around who actually had some understanding of how to make the series work with enough pull to get anything fucking done and even that wasn't much before he died.
We were balls deep in a loop of "Either a series sticks to the Sentai but guts anything and everything that makes that work, or they change everything for a weird and janky OC plot with a super generic and shallow villain and team, flip a coin" every series well before Hasbro came along and mandates to de-emphasize Red and give as equal screen time every single episode as best could be done ironically killed the ability for anyone to develop. The writers were a mix of "I never developed past 12 and think Green With Evil is the peak of cinema" and people who absolutely did not give a fuck and thought the series was retarded and only cared about either a paycheck or a way to score a few asspats on twitter. So kids couldn't form attachments and have a favorite ranger or villain because they were all dogshit, and this all was happening as the franchise was going up against a deluge of American Toku in the form of CWslop and TV was dying with kids anyway.
Add in that Hasbro in general had the weirdest mix of ambition [we're gonna do all original Power Rangers!] with zero desire to put in funding or even make fucking toys for it [We'll also have it look worse than a fanseries on youtube!] and it got fucked.
