 Because the thing was is that Steven Hillenburg at one point came back because he left after the movie and stuff and didn't help out. And then he came back around season seven-ish and helped start writing again. That's why some of the later seasons suddenly got better and then they got bad again. But so he like came back at one point. But his one thing though is he didn't want any abridged series. Now there's two spinoff series. One of which is poorly CGI animated. Really? Yeah.