Bang on post, Fary👍🏼...You've covered pretty much everything that is wrong with this track and the show in general right now.
I'd just summarize it with a few points:
1) You'd have to have your head buried in the sand right now to not see the OBVIOUS switch in the pace and execution of IB this entire past week...it's the messiest week on record yet and anyone who says otherwise is definitely in denial.
2) Ever since Kamini entered this show, it was but a matter of time before a track was built around Gul's fav. vamp to sink the overall show...this finally seems to be happening with this track even though it's seemingly built around a fake SSO...but it's pretty apparent that the road ultimately leads to Kamini and whatever it is she wants to do with the Oberois...to make matters worse, the writers are executing it all in a terribly dragged out and convoluted way...making an already crappy track even worse.
3) A duplicate TAPORI version of SSO is not entertaining to me, period. His random tapori one-liners can be amusing for one or two epis, max...but the writers are now trying to make this long term Manmohan Desai film with humshakals - one suit boot wala businessman, one chawl wala tapori...and everyone confused about who is what...this MAY have been entertaining if the track wasn't already so convoluted with lame vamps, utter lack of progression in the principle equations etc. Nobody is interested in seeing some judwaa bhaiyyon ka milan track.
4) Where is Anika in all this? She's expected to just stand around blank faced and wait a month watching this nonsense play out? How many times is she going to be made to repeat the same pointless, "Mujhe lag raha hai raita fail gaya" line but then continue to prance about OM doing random awws and giving out dowry to Kamini?
5) IB was never exactly a show high on any intelligence in any track...but this is a new low even by IB standards...like a determined effort to remake the show around Kamini's character and totally sideline all principle character equations...and for the life of me, I don't get why the makers want to go with this when they are anyways getting ratings for their other dumb Daksh type tracks...atleast they kept the pace moving on those and wrapped things up in 2-3 epis...here they seem on track to draw this out for months at this rate...how did this come to be all of a sudden when IB has managed to deliver this pace for 6 epis a week for nearly a year?
Generally I don't see any point in ranting about this here cuz Gul and her minions will determinedly do what they want to, no matter how retarded...but I figured I'd add my two cents here anyways😆