I really dont think Kripke is at fault here. It was obvious that he was setting up something much better with gen v and in general with the boys. Everything wrong with season 5 is because of corporate, they had to basically rewrite the whole thing and i heard they even had to reshoot some of it because amazon suddenly cancelled gen v and saw vought rising as their new cash cow. Telling a story which youve been setting up for 4+2 seasons and then having it suddenly hijacked must suck.