Honestly, I can't fault him for your last point, especially if he's successfully monetized it. More pertinent to this thread, Morbi has always had a terrible work ethic and compounded it by basically winging it when it came to plotting Poppy.
ITT: Artists that have fallen from grace
Kevin Myers
Jaxson Harris
They think it makes it seem deeper and more complex than the story actually is. Most of it won't been seen or you'll get a page (maybe an entire chapter) wasted on exposition. The lore trap is a real danger to alot of creators.
Easton Bell
The author of pic related. Went from drawing a beloved Yas Forums comic and being a professional storyboarder to being blacklisted from industry and whining about children cartoons on Twitter all day.
Jacob Lewis
bitter details added on, Morbi is an SJW type and wanted to move to somewhere they would be "accepted." They brought up Seattle and their fans told them that was a HORRIBLE IDEA, and it was because they ignored this, and started having trouble managing time.
The written format was meant to "speed up the storytelling" process over drawing strips but now its been on a 2 year """hiatus"""
Caleb Thompson
This is the biggest example desu
It's such a shame he's a shithead because the pilot he put out was pretty charming (if not a bit generic)
Mason Stewart
Honestly, I really wish someone would just buy the rights off of him. Between the cliff notes he's dropped over Twitter about plot and character details it really wouldn't be hard for someone else to finish it.
Cameron Hall
what did he do
Ryan Cox
>Morbi became bored of it even when it was really popular and decided he would continue it only as a written story with a few illustrations.
I keep seeing webcomics try this and it invariably comes out that the problem wasn't the art but the scripting process.
Erfworld in particular was subject to that since the problems after Book 2 were pretty clearly on Rob's end and not Xin Ye.
Hudson Edwards
Jeremiah Johnson
just being all-around creepy and unpleasant to work with apparently
there are also rumors that he threatened someone with a box cutter, i never really believed them though