That’s very Harmon-esque though. When he took over Community again for S5 there was the joke about S4 being the gas leak year so he could just rewrite those storylines. Alright, pretty funny line, but then he repeated it several more times after that; he just gets very pleased with himself.
I’m not sure about the comments on the violence though, I feel this season is also getting deeper than ever before into the emotional aspects of the family. Maybe it’s just going more extreme in every way than before?