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I am sorry, but... you think Batman TAS had BAD animation?

I think you need to go back and watch it again. At the time it was aired, it was the pinnacle of what western animation could do.
And TF Animated was a great show, despite it's childish art style. You don't often see stuff like a main character sacrificing himself or Megatron reduced to a head in a "kid's cartoon".

I think the problem is that people often judge shows by the looks alone. I could name a hundred japanese animes that have better animation then even the new Thundercats show, but have mundane plots with predictable storyline and horrible writing, dragged out into 55-episode story arcs. At the other end of the palette, we have South Park, which (while I am not a fan of the show) is cleverly written and entertaining, while having animation that a 10-year old could throw together from cutouts.

As I say the same with comics, writing>art style. Sure, pretty pictures help to sell the story, but it's the writing that matters.