User blog comment:KarpToEndAllKarps/An Issue I have with this community/@comment-4726418-20170918175717/@comment-25285054-20170921193321

There's no evidence that SMS in particular caused any of the show's staff to be dismissed, and you're going to have to present your sources if you want anyone to take that claim seriously.

There are a number of reasons someone could be dismissed from the writing staff and there's absolutely no evidence someone in the background went "oh yeah, Ed Macdonald sucks, let's get rid of him." Seriously, the writer bashing in this fandom needs to stop..he wrote a cartoon you didn't like, there's no reason to throw his name in the mud by throwing around rumors about his career.

While the producers have somewhat recognized the poor reception of All Stars, they tend to view the whole thing as a failure, and have never singled out SMS as being problematic in particular. It's an entirely backless claim.