SNL stopped being any good around 1994 or so when they fired en masse, the last good cast they had. Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman. All of those were gone by 1996. What did they replace them with? The never funny Will Farrell and several others you’ve never heard of.
You are very accurate about when they left. When they were gone, I was gone. Finshed watching SNL. Adam Sandler is huge moneymaker these days at a ripe old age for Hollywood