Shur's thesis is something that every self-justifying has person has grasped at I didn't have a chance, I didn't have enough time, give me another ten years to work on it, I'll get better And it's an appealing fantasy but one that you know is appealing because it's bullshit
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right yeah he's secretly depressed & constantly in pain and that's never once shown in the bulk of the episodes where he just gets high and bones his way through the universe
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It's undoubtedly a less thematically consistent show because of how much of it is still a gag-based cartoon yes
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The Pickle Rick episode has his therapist say this directly to his face, he's cruisin' for a cosmic bruisin', he's deliberately doing this search for a being powerful enough to overpower and destroy him because he can't stand living as himself
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that's just the show trying to have its cake and eat it too, the show loves Rick to much to ever make his existence anything less than what it is, it worships at his shrine and then throws out little justifications like that one to try & pretend it doesn't
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