Well, I was talking quantity of shows canceled point of view, not show quality. (Though the number of new shows killed was higher than usual - again, see the ABC and NBC comedy pileups.)
Quality wise, yeah, I can't disagree with you. Vegas, Revolution, Last Resort, and Elementary were OK at best; none of the new comedies grabbed me. Of returning shows, all put out seasons that weren't their best, though Justified was close. (Disclaimer: It's too early to tell for GoT and Mad Men, and Breaking Bad doesn't start for months.)
And while it's clearly early, I'm not getting positive vibes from the new shows either. The drama I'm most interested in*... is a Person of Interest clone where the hero had a chip in his head that lets him read emails and hear phone calls. Wooo? (Okay, The Blacklist, where a criminal mastermind turns himself in and ruins the operations of other criminals for some future purposecouldbe okay.) Comedy-wise, I am looking forward to Brooklyn 99... but because the staff is so shared with Parks & Rec, you have to think Parks suffers as a result.
Honestly, I am beginning to think the situation is the same as the movie industry - there's too much product. There's only so many good writers and charismatic actors out there, and instead of being concentrated in 4 networks worth of shows, they are spread out to 5 broadcast networks, 20 cable networks, and an increasing number of online entities. Overall quality drops as a result.
*Obviously, SHIELD is such a given I'm not including it.
