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I know it's fashionable to shit on D&D for their lack of writing skills, but they weren't hired to write, they were hired to adapt and they were decently good at it. George told them he'd have his material completed by the time they'd have to adapt it and he did not, yet I see very little of the blame attributed to the guy who just kind of gave up on finishing his story.
Fair point, but they did change all of their staff and writers after s4 when George left, and George only wrote a few episodes directly. Personally that's a large part of what I ascribe to the decrease in quality (at that time a lot of the dialogue changed, e.g. the Queen of Thorns was a lot less sharp after).
I probably shouldn't assign so much blame directly though.
And George Martin has taken his sweet time with winds of winter, which I think suggests he's lost interest too.
Absolutely, there were many reasons for the decline in writing and I am by no means going to defend D&D or their team as writers, but I don't envy the situation they were handed.