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Is that all?
Well in that case, that gets pretty close to saying "don't have levity in serious works, period", which I'd strongly disagree with. Part of what made things like Breaking Bad and Disco Elysium great was that they dealt with really serious topics while also being fun and almost goofy at some points. The lighthearted moments were needed both for contrast and to not wear out the viewer. There's an art to doing this of course, as wisecracking during a serious moment can do a lot more harm than good, but the alternative of just being serious or negative all the time to the point of being hard-boiled and grimdark certainly isn't good either.
No, it's not that at all. It's closer to "please for the love of god, react to danger with literally anything other than a sarcastic quip".
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It's not that it's bad per se, people loved Buffy, I personally liked Reaper, which is very much whedonesque in character. It's just that you can't have everyone in a movie be a smartass all the time. Things can get so bad that the straight man of the cast makes a bitter joke or the resident clown finally shuts up. Maybe someone is two different people at work and with friends and the change in his tone shows how the relationship between the characters changed. People complain that the MCU movies are tonally flat: everyone is equally snarky almost all the time.
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