I lay a lot of the blame at J.J. Abrams’ feet, not necessarily because he directed both Star Trek and Star Wars (though somewhat because of that) but because of Lost specifically. He largely started this trend of every episode being a cliffhanger and every plot point needing to top the last. At the time it was a fresh way of seeing a story which is why it became the trend, I don’t understand why it won’t go away though. In the end, Lost is largely remembered as having lost the plot much like Game of Thrones or more recently Stranger Things. They don’t start these things with an actual plan anymore and frankly I see that as the big problem. Take MASH for instance, they knew they that no matter what happened in between the show would end with the end of the war. They don’t even start shows with that little a plan anymore.