I liked all the other characters just fine without Michael. I would watch a show entirely about Jim and Dwight and their shenanigans. They were hands down my favorite part. And the secretary girl that came in late in the show. I forget her name, but I loved her as well. If Michael could have been her kind of dumb, more like how he played Brick in Anchorman, just not that dumb, I think it still would have worked. He’s just such a bad person in this that I can’t get over it.
https://youtu.be/sO-msplukrw
Although I rarely eat there, maybe once or twice a year, this is all the justification I need.