I agree completely and utterly with Pizzaamane.
link fully explains everything I've hated about Doctor Who in recent years, and it's all since Steven Moffat took over.
Russel T. Davies created this wonderful concept. He brought back an old highly beloved TV character and brought him back completely changed. The new doctor that came on screen had done this horrific and terrible thing to his own people and "2.47 billion children" in order the save the universe because he felt he had no choice. But this meant that the Doctor was now the last of his race, grief-stricken, angry, self-loathing, bitter. He's not the same character we had before and
rightly so. How could he be the same after what he did? Using that Russel T. Davies created a wonderfully complex and nuanced character and builds several years worth of character development on that. The Doctor acts the way he does because of that decision he made on Gallifrey. He had a vision of a character and formed him beautifully - “He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful."
The quote the article I referenced - Moffat doesn't understand grief. When he refuses to let people die (and Davies certainly wasn't afraid of this) or when he gives them softened deaths (dying happily of old age is a really common one in the show now) he cheapens death in the show. And this is another way he has no respect for Davies work. Remember at the end of "The Doctor Dances" it was really surprising and heartwarming because "Just this once — everybody lives!" This was a beautifully written two-parter and I commend Steven Moffat for it,
but he can't end every single episode with everyone being okay! He just can't. I have been unable to properly watch or enjoy Doctor Who since the end of Tennant's reign. It's extremely difficult to care about any of the characters when none of them are in any real danger.
Don't get me started on the continuity issues that have riddled the show since Moffat began writing. He's skating on the popularity of the show and using the excuse "because time travel and wibbley wobbley timey wimey". He's constantly contradicting the rules of the universe that have been in place for years and making writing decisions that
make no sense!
I don't like his writing for his sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia. But most of all, I dislike it because he undid every bit of character development, nuance and complexity that embodied Doctor Who at the beginning of the reboot. All because he's afraid of consequences and grief.