I don't know. I thought the last season was pretty wangsty. Like, we are not supposed to care about Rick.
Rick is supposed to do whatever the fuck he wants to do and to entertain himself and we are supposed to get entertainment from watching him do it and watching everyone else get dragged along into his shenanigans.
Sad mopey Rick with feelings and character development is not what the show is about.
And I get it, they are the creators of the show, they can do whatever the fuck they want to do with it and my input doesn't matter for shit. But I'm probably not the only person that feels this way and I hope they come out of the spiral that they are in and make the show an escapist fantasy for people who hate the world again rather than a deep and terrifying introspective look at the psychological trauma of being the smartest man in the world who is stuck in a never-ending revolving dick joke.