As long as GL is on the air, there is potential. There isn't going to be any do-overs possible. Soaps are never perfect. There are also always storylines that run the gammet, from excellent to poor and poor to absolutely awful. The last several years ALL soaps have been dumbed down considerably and would only benefit from an infusion of intelligence and better storytelling.
All soaps are capable of improvement.
More than likely, local affiliates would be showing back to back episodes of Judge Judy or Springer during the hour-long timeslot GL has. I said this for years about AW, after our local affiliate pulled it from their lineup. No one wanted to believe that AW would go. I only see a concerned father. Makeing harley a harleyho,a kid with each family was just dumb to me.