Timeline should have been handled more swifter
Miguel and some of his peers were like 15 when the show started six years ago and they're basically 17 now, which means the show is happening in not only a two-year period, but clearly still stuck in pretty much the Covid time or maybe even before that (2019) since filming began in 2017. Ugh, for the show to be quite a few years behind is ridiculous, especially when you have characters like Kenny and Anthony who aged pretty rapidly in this short two-year span from when we first seen them to now. It doesn't quite help they had that year off when the strike happened and we had no new episodes then.
For the latest season, I think a time jump was needed to keep the show current meaning Miguel and his peers are already in college or on their way out the door.