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That's an important point.
The writers had no idea that they were not receiving the full 20 episodes this season. They only learned that news in the middle of filming the 100th episode, which will air on March 21st (since the show is preempted next week).
By the time the writers learned the news, they had already written the first nine episodes for the season. They may have gone back and tinkered with the scripts for episodes eight and nine, but I doubt they did too much. It's really only the last one, where they knew it was the end.
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Well that explains some things then, if they thought they had a lot more episodes than they actually got. Usually the best final seasons are the ones that are planned in advance. Unfortunately most shows don't know far enough in advance that they are being canceled to do anything about it. Once the episodes are written and filmed, they probably don't have the budget to go back and make a bunch of changes.