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I don't think they were any good before either. It's just sometimes the authors needed a change and they wrote good ones
That's why go for josei
there are good shoujo mangas but the fact that it's written for teenage girl consumption is what makes it as it is, and it does not mean that it's not good.
If you think about it, that could also count for every genre
Shoujo just isn't as good as it used to be, it's so sad.