@shinsenryuu I wouldn't be surprised then.
The art changed, slightly enough, I'm surprised they found someone with the same kind of art (but definitely not of the same quality).
I guess it's about since then yeah that everything went down hill, as you said they introduced friends/princesses, well no, they didn't but... screw it.
It was going nice, perfect pace, not too fast, not too slow, slow enough to develop characters, fast enough to keep moving through plot points to keep them interesting.
Not we're running a marathon for some reason where everything gets skipped at light's speed.
Quality dropped rock bottom imho, went from a 8, maybe 9 out of 10 to something barely scrapping 4 or 5.