It's just painful to watch. Its cruel, evil, and torturous. Its just plain hell to Squidward. At least in the old SB Sqid was somewhat a jerk to people, and deserved what he got. Pain-back (I know bad pun is bad.). But here Sqid has to suffer being used for slap-stick humor, and its not even funny. Sqid is just the everyday, normal person trying to make a living, but life keeps being a prick to him. Sqid's being subjected to bullying, torture, harassment, stalking, and pain for no other reason other then to be comical (but its sadistic, sick, and just mean is what it is.) Poor Sqid *hugs him.*

Getting hurt is not a joke.

Seeing Squidward get hurt all the time in modern spongebob isn't funny (like it used to be in the original spongebob)

It's annoying. It's always caused by SPONGBOB. They repeat ideas. Use filers. And it's forced (as if they are running out of ideas).

I haven't seen all the new episodes of modern SB. But from what I hear, it sounds like it's no longer funny. As mentioned, in earlier SB, Squid did things that brought his bad Karma onto himself. And while you still feel bad for him sometimes, you know he's the one that could have prevented it.

The newer episodes seem like Squidward is a hapless victim, and he becomes one of the more sympathetic characters.