Totally agree. You can read the full article here, but DBZ was just 3x too long. Should have ended with the Garlic Jr. Saga, which should have just been a 2 hour Dead Zone 2. The Cell saga gave us the salmon colored “Bad Man” button up, and I loved the Buu saga, and Goku vs. Vegeta (SSJ2) is easily the greatest DBZ bout of all time IMO, but the sheer fact that the show became so formulaic and transformation-happy definitely detracted from the overall legacy for me. In slaying Frieza, Goku avenged his fallen species, and could have (and for all intents and purposes, should have) died with the planet Namek. Definitely would have been an excellent stopping point, rather than trivializing Saiyan lore and prophecy with excessive transformations like Ascended Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan 3, not to mention the Potara Earrings, which effectively introduced what would have been the most powerful character in all of DBZ in Vegito, only to see him disappear after a couple of episodes, with NO explanation as to why they didn’t utilize the earrings again against Kid Buu, that thing from Wrath of the Dragon, OR Birris the Destroyer. I just feel it would have been a bit more in step with the original Dragon Ball, which I find loads more entertaining in retrospect, if it had ended with Frieza. That, and considering Toriyama’s immense talent, who knows what we might have seen in a post-DBZ world.

Shoutout to Brooks, who definitely inspired this response, given that it was originally addressed to him, and cred to the DB Wiki for the pic.