I think this is definitely disappointing to me as the end of season 3 was disappointing to me. It's not a good thing to end the whole series with.

I ended up not seeing the end of series three for a while due to travelling and when I got back I realised I had only actually missed one episode. It definitely left me with a big "that's it?" feeling.

It's because of the sauce

The season finale gave a faux reset, but actually set the tension between the family members moving and each character had development. They started having some agency when in previous seasons almost everything was put into motion by Rick. Then the season finale came, which basically was all about how badass Rick was. Apparently Dan Harmon contributed more than usual to the last episode so I'm gonna blame it on him for he doesn't know his son.

If this is the case then the people of Adult Swim/Cartoon Network are objectively bad at business. Annoying as super intense fandom is, it's a license to print money. I suspect there's some further drama behind the whole shenanigan.

Actually it might be of this, but the solution seems obvious: let Harmon go.

i was just shitposting it would be ridiculous if they did it because of the sauce incident

Tbh there was enough complaining on the internet about the show when the sauce drama was ongoing that you'd think the show had hemorrhaged 75% of its audience.

Just by casual reading, I stumbled upon a more plausible theory: they're deep in negotiations as fourth season means syndication bux.