dear general hospital, what the hell?!?!??!

i don't know what's going on in the writers' room at general hospital these days, but i'm the most frustrated i've ever been in all my years of watching this show. i've been a loyal viewer since i was 8 years old. i remember that summer. my parents went to europe, my sister went to asia with my other gramma, and my brother and i spent the summer in LA. i was at gramma & grampa's house and he was at an aunt & uncle's. a few of my uncles and aunt's were still living at gramma's back then, and one aunt in particular was a huge gh fan. she videotaped every episode and we watched them some nights, a couple shows at a time. there were days when i went to work with a diff aunt/uncle and i'd sit in their office at 2pm and watch gh on a little tiny black & white. felicia was a princess and she and frisco were off on some adventure in caves with relics. robert and anna were spies and robin was just a kid. somewhere around that time she met casey the alien. sean & tiffany couldn't have babies and there was a black market baby who was really somebody's sister's baby. i learned about miscarriage on gh. bobbie was still recognizable back then before she had plastic surgery catface and somewhere in my early years there was a heartbreaking storyline because maxie was sick and getting sicker all the time and needed a new heart. then all of a sudden on her way to school one morning bj was killed and bobbie and tony made the decision to donate her organs and her heart went to maxie who was then played by the delightful robyn richards. during that story, i cried for the first time ever watching something on tv. everyone involved was so real and the kids all had their parents for these hard times. the doctors, the families, the friends - they all pulled together and it was beautiful.
so fast forward to today and i don't understand what is happening. jake had so much potential and deeper ties to the community than anyone else (except maybe michael who is also somehow related to everybody). it was so unnecessary to kill this kid. josslyn didn't even need kidneys until the same day that jake died and no one saw her cancer coming either. this storyline wasn't built on enough and i'm left feeling this void. the actors are doing a commendable job for their part. they do bring tears to my eyes. but when i come out of the gh bubble, i have to face that this is a pale shadow of a story compared to bj & maxie's. jake's family hasn't come together. jason has been left on the outside. luke & tracy are hiding on the haunted star. everyone is walking on eggshells around everyone else. and carly is asking jason for his kid's kidney's before even giving him a hug? come on writers! as mean as carly can be, as selfish as she can be, her friendship with jason has always been too important for her to sabotage. she would comfort him as his friend and be there for him and wait at least 10 minutes before telling him about her own pain. not jump right into it. and bobbie, where is she? she lost her daughter once and now her nephew is going through the same pain. and her granddaughter is in need of a transplant. you're telling me carly's mom wouldn't show up for something this important? you're telling me nikolas would go to the hospital and take the boys and not go give his brother a hug? i don't care how strained things are, things have been getting better and brothers hug. everything about this is so unrealistic. it's like bob guza and team forgot how REAL families interact. how they support each other and love each other and are there for each other. lulu wouldn't have left the hospital to tell luke, she would have called him to get his ass over there stat. and she would have called her other brothers and told them to come rally. there are spencers, webbers, and quartermaines involved in this storyline, and it's a time for everyone to come together. i get there are budget cuts happening behind the scenes. but if that's going to stop you from doing a storyline like this right, then don't do it at all. you can't just kill children on daytime television and have it be handled so poorly. kudos to the actors for the work they're doing with what they've been given. but seriously writers, give your viewers some credit. some of us have been watching too long to be fooled by your half-assed storytelling.