That`s exactly how I feel too Dazzle. When the Braxtons first came into it, and were heavily featured, that`s when the rot set in a little bit for me. It seemed to have losts it charm of the very early days. I can`t remember really disliking as many characters back then as I do now.
When Maddie first came into it with Spencer a few years ago, it was from that point on when I realised that we`d never get back the charm of what H&A meant to me when I started watching it from the very first episode way back in 1988. H&A like Neighbours is just too PC these days, and that`s a real shame.