There doesn't have to be an event for stuff to happen, just better pacing of the stories.
The Bill/Hayley story should have been planned to have several reveals along the way. And when the story gains some movement-the poisoning, Lynette's arrival, there is no follow through.
Same with Leslie- the reveal that she ran over Laura was Wk1 and here we are over a year later and nothing. Now she just struts around mouthing off at everyone.
If the plan was to keep Hayley and Leslie, then the story should have been structured for that, so they had an option to keep them around in a viable way-not just delaying/forgetting stuff that happened.
My other note is the lack of triangles-that old soap staple. There's a hint of it with Hayley/Dani/Bill-but nobody is acting on it.
And Nicole/Ted/Kial/Carlton again isn't played strongly enough-Ted/Carlton are not adversaries, Nicole doesn't seem overly serious about Kial or Carlton.
Kat/Eva/Tomas was dropped as was Ashley/Derek/Andre.
Martin/Smitty, Jacob/Naomi, Joey/Vanessa, Madison/Chelsea, Eva/Isaiah don't have any third party creating conflict.
Not that every relationship should have that, but at least one strong triangle should be incorporated.
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