I still find it baffling that people were expecting the Cuphead Show to be anything other than a hijinxs-of-the-week "good guy has fun, bad guy gets annoyed and tries to stop the good guy's fun, bad guy gets a really insignificant dealing of temporary karma, status quo" SpongeBob clone. Is there anything else it could've possibly been? Like even looking solely at the written, digetic lore and ignoring the aesthetic + cartoons it was inspired by, the bosses in Cuphead are almost all just his hypnotised friends and not outright villains - you can't really write an epic lore-heavy action cartoon where every single villain has the same "gambling/game show-induced-hypnosis" backstory
By the way, The 2012 Shredder VA did this.