When did The Simpsons get bad?

[Prowler]

I think we all can agree that The Simpsons don't have the same quality as they did back in the 90s.

Why did this happen? Gonna speculate changes in the writing staff combined with the show being on air for such long time resulting in the creativity tank running dry.

But what's the point where The Simpsons became a bad show?

A lot of people say that the 1997 episode The Principal and the Pauper was the turning point/jumping of the shark moment, but I don't think I agree with that. I was still enjoying The Simpsons up until 2003 or so. The early 2000s seasons certainly felt "different" from classic Simpsons seasons, but I definitely enjoyed the episodes still. Even if there were less great episodes on average.

Around the mid-2000s, I stopped watching The Simpsons. And didn't even watch the movie. Tbh that's more or less when icbrgna noticing online criticism for The Simpsons. Which surprised me a bit.

Anyway around 2009 or 2010 I saw a few episodes of the latest season... and they weren't good. One was about ipods, which were called mipods on the show. Another one was about Homer inviting a Muslim couple over for dinner and then accusing them of being terrorists or something? Neither episode was funny and just seemed... off in comparison to The Simpsons I grew up watching.

So I'm guessing somewhere around 2004-2009 the show lost a ton of quality.

What do you think?