Not sure where I wrote anything about cartoon-y? I said memecraft, because everything in Cata was a reference to some popculture stuff. Also having a villain that actually interacts with you was at least something. It ticked some of the most primitive checkboxes of writing, even if it is only on the level of highschool fanfics and saturday morning cartoons (the later arguably being better written than most of the rubbish today..). Still leagues above the current way story is not-told.