I found that watching this show with a negative mindset actually really helps you to at least enjoy it, I think this episode was not so terrible because everyone expected to be garbage, but it was just okay.

You have to understand that the golden days of the show are gone, and everything now kinda sucks and every character is ass. When you understand that and see the show for what it is you can actually at least not hate the viewing experience. You can even be pleasant surprise like with the last week episode.

It kinda reminds me a bit of how I watch shows like Family guy by understanding that new FG is not Seth Macfarlane FG and you should not watch expecting anything like that. And sometimes you can even find episodes you like and thank the lord is not a summer episode the same way you can thank the lord is not a Lois episode and the characters are only that to bait the horny bastards who want to fuck the redheads.

If you give up the idea you will receive something good and understand what the show is now, a bunch of pop culture references from hacky tv writers in shitty characters walking in the skin of once beloved ones you can at least take what you get. I don't think modern Rick and morty or even FG are good, but at very least I can finish the episodes, I can't say the same for a lot of the episodes from the Simpsons or Bobs burgers. When I can't finish an episode and stop caring about new ones altogether is when it will be 100% dead to me. For now I will feast in the rotten flesh and maggots of it's corpse. since I don't have anything better to do.