Large fandoms of Cash Cow Franchises are prone to drama-llama behavior. YMMV pages describe the audience reactions of a fandom, they don't judge their logical merit or, in the reporting, pass judgement on the show itself. If you can fill the page with other YMMV tropes, do. Tropes Are Not Bad.
And even without that, it strikes me as well within statistic in terms of length.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Considering the 22 years of baggage the franchise brings to the table, I'd expected rather more complaints by now, honestly. Addressing the OP more specifically, I've just looked through the history and none of the Base Breaker complaints so far are episode-specific. Currently, the only one that mentions a specific episode just notes it contextually for fandom complaints of Pacing Problems relative to a prior property. Even still, bases have been known to break over one episode, so complaints of that nature will inevitably crop up as a consequence of a franchise's Unpleasable Fanbase. Remember, just because you think an audience reaction comes from a Vocal Minority or is illogical doesn't mean it gets omitted. The audience reaction tropes are driven by vocal minorities high emotion, and the drama of the internet, such is the beast that is fandom. The only thing that's likely to get nuked is editorializing in an example how much certain fandom factions are awesome/suck for holding their opinions.
Okay, seriously, the Broken Base entry is ridiculous now. It's literally just turning into "Hey, I liked/didn't like a thing. I bet other people feel this way too, but other people don't."
Actually, the entirety of the entry can be boiled down to this:
"Some people like this show. Other people don't." Oh, and "Some people liked the old show better. Some people do not."
I realize the lousy, loose nature of the trope itself makes it kind of ripe for this sort of personal rants blown up into "THE ENTIRE FANBASE FEELS THIS WAY AND ARE FIGHTING ABOUT IT CONSTANTLY", but it's kind of useless as any kind of actual commentary on the show.
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...the Broken Base entry is just becoming a laundry list of every single little complaint someone has about each episode. We need to make sure it doesn't just start dwarfing the page, given that it's almost half the content of the YMMV tag right now.
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