I miss Seinfeld! There were ups and downs, hits and misses with the writing but mostly it was great TV. Throw out any of the various names: soup nazi, re-gifter, low-talker, high-talker, close-talker, Bob Sackamano, Putty, and Hello, Newman and people know what you're talking about. It never conformed to the formula and even when Jerry and Elaine did hook-up it was barely mentioned in passing. No break-up/make-up cycles which was really refreshing. The ending did leave something to be desired but, considering that it was still on top with so many die-hard fans begging for it to stay on, it's not surprising. I still compare sit-coms to this standard and it's been off the air (not counting the repeats) for years.
About the shows finale; yeah it wasn't as great as some might have hoped but there really is no possible way to please everyone when it comes to ending a collosal show such as Seinfeld.
Yeah I compare everything (sitcom-wise) to seinfeld. Your regular sitcom is full off cheesey moments, countless cliches, canned laughter, exagerated body language and, though Seinfeld did have some of that, it was so well disguised that you didn't even notice you were watching a sitcom.