Transparent was running out of interesting material for Maura Pfefferman, so Jeffrey Tambor's ouster could be a good thing

Vulture

By Season 4, says Kathryn VanArendonk, the Amazon series had begun "to cycle through the same beats the series has already explored" about Maura: "her childhood, the history of gender in her family, trauma of the parents revisited on the children, public-facing and private-facing personas. It’s not that there are no new stories to tell about Maura; it’s that lately, Transparent hasn’t seemed especially interested in telling them."