A very popular profoundly sexist show - Was surprised

Everybody loves Raymond is hugely sexist. I don't think it would be made today or be as popular.
I've just been watching it a bit lately every now and then due to boredom and having watched everything else I own far too many times.
So I needed a break, something less familiar and new to my shows.
But this show is hugely subpar. I can't believe it was as popular as it was.

It seems every episode is almost exactly the same. It's the guys doing something insensitive or selfish or deceitful, and they're trying to hide it. But then their wives find out and overembellishly react to it (always far more than should be appropriate or deserved).

It seems every episode is about creating a foundation of defending husbands sexism, laziness, and perpetuating the 'BANSHEE woman' stereotype.
I knew the show was low-brow (for the nonintellectuals) but I didn't know it was so abundantly sexist.
Every single episode is striving to put a woman in her place. And it's just sad that the show had such massive appeal, cause that is so many people believing that that's okay.

Plus I find sitcoms based on constant episodes of deceit and/or miscommunication not funny at all, and frankly lazy.
They've hammered the nails into that coffin long ago. Can they come up with nothing else?

Also, another time that actually pisses me off about sitcoms is the way they stand in strategically placed spots so they are facing the audience on an angle (even though the person they're talking to in the scene is right infront of them). It's so awkward and so forced.