I started watching The Simpsons from the beginning

A list of points:

1. Woah isn't time starting to show! It's crystal clear that we're surprisingly far away culturally. The things The Simpsons was a reaction to is dusty prehistory from my point of view.
2. Bart is more child-like in a good way than, like, post season 12 or whatever. He super looks up to Otto the bus driver which is totally the kind of a thing kids do! It's no wonder he was the early star of the show since he was the first family member to have a consistent characterization.
3. Three act structures are super clear. I figured out this three act structure thing as a kid from watching Simpsons before I had heard of the concept, clearly this show was the best teacher possible. There's some weird stuff going though, some episodes are quite disjointed. Like the first act of The Telltale Head hardly has to do with the rest of the episode and Homer's Odyssey's third act is kind of weird as Homer already got his reversal of fortune before it even began and goes against his later characterization.
4. The satirical elements are imo more clearly on display.
5. Animation and "cinematography" takes a lot of chances, but do so with discipline. They do lots of cartoony stuff, but they respect that the in-world is real enough. The actions they do are mostly quite mundane, but the characters are allowed to overreact. Cartoonishness doesn't come from what characters do, but how they do it. The way shots are framed comes off as more cinematic than what is the standard for sitcoms and is fresher than in later day Simpsons.
6. I hated the animation on these as a kid, but now I'm changed as I can situate them with other cartoons. It's quite low budget, but the creators were surprisingly good at working around their limitations. For example the live orchestra they have was a compromise as they thought that they need all the help they can get from music as the animation had to be rough. Secondly everything neat they do (like the shadow effects in Bart the Genius) looks more impressive by comparison. But there are clear glitches, bad ideas (such as "trumpet mouths" and distracting big plants in backgrounds) present.
7. I'm actually quite a lot into the episode Moaning Lisa. It has "NES" style video game sequences! And both subplots are about parental drama and Homer becomes an enthusiastic gamer.
8. The show hasn't settled into what it's about yet, which is why they have weird episodes.
9. My total unflinching baseless belief is that Duckburg was an influence on Springfield.