Actually I did use to watch it quite often.
My point was not that it dropped in quality, it’s just that it became slow to keep up with ongoing events with details and information readily available via basic OSINT on primary sources or even regular quality news outlets.
Ex: https://youtu.be/dRRJmOTCqqQ
Pretty much everything presented in this report was already well known and available for months, making the the rest essentially a PR moneyshot for the US Navy.
I still watch it occasionally for its direct interviews with select people, but it’s still a legacy production that struggles to keep up with info you can get even from AP or Reuters.
Mind you it’s still miles better than flaming trash like Washington Post or NYT, but I could easily see CBS axeing it years ago.
Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.