Yes. Within the Walking Dead universe is a “spiritus mundi” that longtime viewers share. They’ve seen it all. The zombie theme might seem endlessly interesting, but it’s not. The writers finally become boxed in, and all they have left is shuffling the deck chairs.
Show runner Scott Gimple is out now, and has described the end of season eight as the end of everything in the series up until now. If that is true, then season nine will be radically different. I hope they get beyond zombies and petty fights and start rebuilding the world, I have wanted to see that for a long time.