The second-highest upvoted post in this community so far is one of the old ones so they’re not all bad, but yeah, a lot of them are not great.

In one of the recentish alt texts, he says he switched to a new style because he had just moved to LA and was looking for a job. IMO there was also a noticeable turn towards dark humor around the same time, so maybe he was really stressed at the time or something.