People who think there is a hidden Obama commentary or critique splayed all over the season 3 finale are forgetting Dan's politics and his targeting of government beyond any one person's involvement. If you know anything about the writer, you'd know he doesn't like compartmentalizing all synthesis into any one person, he's all about Zeitgeist and popular opinion, and the dangers of crowd-sourcing our morality and decision-making.
The guy is post-structuralist at heart, anachronistic in philosophy, improvisational in training, cynical in framing all human competency, and none of those impulses are going to give you your "Evil Morty" boss battle for a season cap. You'd be ten times more likely to get a season finale that consists of 20 minutes straight of rick and morty eating a fucking sandwich and taking a nap if what you wanted to see more than anything in the world was a boss fight. As justin roiland's 15,000 improvised GVP podcast characters would say, "fuck you" because every single one of his inventions, without exception, pursues his anachronism alongside harmon. You don't get to see what you want to see, because that's what every single other show on television is for.
Rick isn't a "red-pill, by-any-means-necessary-troll-the-sensitive" self-satisfied genius, he's hurting from his awareness, in exact parallels to Dan. Dan sees bullshit in almost everything he puts his mind to, and it curses his ability to genuinely invest in those emotional high-notes. He'd rather undermine everything with heart or value to people, but going full-tilt in that direction too, makes him disgusted with its aloofness.
So he, like his titular character rick, frequentlt oscillates between giving zero shits and teleporting back to the scene to preserve what he wants at the very last minute.
It means he absolutely "un-wrings" the bells of his episodes despite the crying from AV club and reddit, because to commit to any one path will ruin his enjoyment. That same spirit of cynical vs salvation infuses real emotional monents of empathy and simultaneous indifference throughout his show's characterizations and plot points. Too much criticism of the show's "smart" deus ex machina and self-parody ignores that very real duality in the writer's philosophy.
TL;DR version:
Criticize nothing of the show's format or character arcs if you haven't heard 500 hours of the writer simultaneously self-deprecating and rebuilding his faith in humanity and story potentials.
Listen to the early harmontowns if you haven't seen anything from it. The latest shows are less about story structure given the changing weekly political climate, and won't illuminate as much about Harmon's writerly and philosophical instincts