The limitations of the single, short episode format

I was watching the first few episodes of Secret Level, and the very first one - focused on Dungeons and Dragons - had me frustrated at some of the limitations of the medium.

Character development isn't ALWAYS necessary, but if we're to be invested in the character then it needs at least SOME. If the episode can focus on a single, primary character for most of the audience investment, you can get away with less time.

Secret Level has a run time of about 10 minutes (the credits take up a decent portion of the 13-14 minutes each episode is slated for). In the Unreal Tournament one, this works - the protagonist has no dialog, and we have enough understanding of what happens to progress forward.

In a larger cast like the D&D episode, we have none of that. Even the "main" character gets no real development - we only know he's "strong" because another character remarks on how strong his will had to have been to have been carrying something with him.

Arcane Season 2 had a similar problem, but not from short episodes but from a short season with too much going on. S1 was very tight, and all the storylines had logic tie-ins with each other. S2 felt like they wanted at least 3 seasons (maybe 4) but were told to wrap things up by the end of S2 - like if an author planned a trilogy but got told from his publisher that he wasn't getting a third book and had to wrap it all up in the second, but wasn't allowed to up the page count.

Anyone else watching some shows where either single episodes or seasons feel rushed, but were otherwise good and you wish they had given the creators more time to tell the story / develop the characters?

The DCCU had a similar problem, though they were rushed to try and catch up with the MCU rather than being limited by their format.