Given how many people that show has employed, trained, and connected, the cultural impact it has had over the years, and the additional productions the revenue has funded that might not otherwise have been made...
I'd tell my international students to watch it if they wanted to get a handle on the NZ accent. I think quite a few of them continued watching it after they left the country.
It gets good viewership still too, doesn’t it? Not my cup of tea but so many people get their first break there, would be a real shame, shortsighted to lose all that talent.