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Monty had that Asian work ethic, he also got to do things his way which just happened to coincide with shit working conditions. Shane mentioned that he and Monty would sit in the office and jam out to music and just hammer out animation that way, something RT put the kibosh on the microsecond he died in favor of soul crushing assembly line animating.RWBY lacks focus without Monty. Preaching to the choir, but it does say something when your show was created by and ran by someone who seemed to thrive in conditions seen as horrendous (or at least could go a long time without complaining about it).
RWBY was directionless with Monty too, though. He may have had a more concrete idea of how things would ultimately shake out but it's been said a thousand times how he would just drop shit into Miles and Kerry's laps last second. Season 2's post credit scene, Neo in general, maidens, it was his vanity project so like most amateur creators he just crammed everything he thought was cool into his show without much thought or buildup.
The show actually got more solid direction when he died, since there was now a structure and goal to work towards, it's just a shit direction.
RWBY's writers liked to say that V1-3 are a sort of extended prologue. V4 and on are new formula RWBY, where rather than rip off anime Monty liked they decided to rip off more of Avatar instead. The show became one season of plot/one season of filler after that to drag things out. A season of traveling to the new location, then a season at that location, repeat ad nauseum.Man, this series really went off the rails as the season went on. First it was anime-inspired adventures in a school setting. Then it went into a major storyline arc with a chief villain, character deaths, and plot twists. Now it seems to have diverted from the "kill the Big Bad" quest to some filler season.