No, he was the right damaged hero for the time period. The show doesn't age terribly well.

This thread is you bring outed by your selective viewing choices

I had seen people in here recommending Z Nation, and I'd had an itch for a dystopian narrative and I enjoy the undead as a mechanism to discuss the human condition so I tried it - it was fucking atrocious.
The next time that I saw someone in here discussing it I asked about it, and they said 'no no that's trash, but you should try Black Summer, the prequel, MUCH better' yada yada... Again, having free time and an itch ... Again, completely lackluster and disappointed.
I don't understand the appeal of the direction of production, obviously the acting delivery is niche at best, and even if you enjoy campy stuff this is questionable. I just ... I just don't know what people see in it. I guess maybe these are the same people that kept the Walking Dead on the air for so long maybe.

Every day someone stumbles upon something for the first time, no matter how many times it's been discussed on Reddit.

It's literally how Netflix engineers their content, down to the writing and direction. The inclusion of "second screen consideration" in it's content development is why sooo much of their stuff is just middling waste of bandwidth.

That's the primary way on which it's affected content.