The Simpsons kids do age

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Just not in height. Approximately in seasons 1-10 Bart and Lisa are more like typical children, and Maggie is more like a typical baby. Then from approximately season 11 onwards they seem to be more like teenagers. I think the animators should have made them a bit older in their height after season 14 or 15 maybe, but still kept them in the same clothes for the sake of simplicity, but just a bit taller so that their ages match their characters. And they could have even made Maggie a bit older, perhaps still with a pacifier but a little bit taller and getting the woman who voiced Lisa to do the voice for Maggie when she does talk. I think the show would be more interesting if Maggie became more prominent instead of a forgotten main character who is often excluded from the outings the family go on.
But then I suppose the animators would have to change their schools to middle/high school and have different school teachers.

What do you think? Discuss.

There could've been a lot of humour about Bart being a teenager and getting older . They could have been replaced by a second set of kids.

I dunno about the kids but the show itself has aged in my opinion.

Seriously though, I used to love this show but I think it has been on way too long just like Family Guy and Spongebob. I wish all these shows were allowed to end when they were still good.

I put this thread in random discussion because I feel my threads in television etc don't get replied to, but it doesn't matter.

I'm glad the Simpsons are still going, but I feel like it ended at season 20 for me because they won't release any more seasons on DVD, and I don't have Disney+ or Netflix.

Although I find the jokes in the newer Simpsons a bit naff and sometimes even childish, I still enjoy them, because I like the brighter quality on the screen (the older seasons quality feels faded like watching an old videotape). I know a lot of the jokes in the newer seasons sometimes go on for way too long and seem irrelevant to the scene. And I don't like the way some of the characters are way too exaggerated.

I think it's more a matter of them starting to stretch reality more and more with them. Slightly more mature plots were imposed, but they were in a world that was more outlandish in general.

Although let's face it, Bart is Homer's age now.