Some people found Roseanne and married with children to be insulting to marriage and families, or they didn’t enjoy the “negative “ biting mean humor of Roseanne and Dan, or Al and Peggy or say, the golden girls, which did the negative/sarcastic humor and also crammed in a lot of social justice stuff in the last few seasons. (married with children went the opposite direction and mocked it relentlessly.)

This stuff was eyebrow raising in the 1990s and some people didn’t want to sit there watching families trying to be as mean as possible to one another. It wasn’t in the “sarcastic 2000s” and beyond.

Ps: anything that was preaching political correctness or SJW issues was looked at by some as communist horsecrap. Maybe it was! Jackie was a lesbian and there were numerous other “social issues” they played out on Roseanne just like the golden girls did if you think about it for a minute. We’ve all moved on to what we see as the new social issues of our day since then.

Editing to add; the same team that did golden girls was also behind “soap” (Susan Harris) which you might recall introduced Billy Crystal as “Jodie” (trans character). Soap was ridiculously funny, but people were getting wary of this stuff being “forced on them” on TV. I loved all these shows but if someone had said “this a bad sign of what’s to come” they would have been right