It's not even about cramming woke content or lack thereof, for fucking fuck sake, it's about the fact that woke people are, as a general rule, either outright incompetent or thoroughly mediocre at their chosen professions. That is precisely why they turn to wokism in the first place - it's a futile, misguided attempt to rise above their overall shittiness/utter mediocrity in the eyes of society by being "one of the good guys".
It's not that they can't make quality stuff because they're woke. It's the opposite - they're woke because they know they can't make quality stuff and public moralizing is the only thing that will ever give them a chance of not being considered just another utterly worthless failure.
I don't know about that. Maybe the difference is in how political views and general kookiness of character are tolerated today, or even how much they are encouraged in staff of a somewhat menial status even. Still, Amercian colleges went through a change for the worse around the millenium, and they undoubtedly keep spewing pollution (moderate freshmen brainwashed into ultra-leftists) to many creative fields.