I listened to the Lex Fridmans episode with Annie Jacobsen and then a few days later listened to her episode on JRE and it just really highlighted to me how bad an interviewer Rogan has become.

In the Lex Fridman episode he is asking intelligent questions and actually listening to what the guest has to offer and try to let the guest shine and tell their story.

The JRE episode on the other hand was a masterclass in talking over your guest, making it all about yourself, barely asking about her work/book at all and finding a way to turn the conversation into a way where you can lecture your guest about your own favorite topics.

At this point it seems that every JRE episode ends up with him lecturing his guests about his favorite topics like "psychedelics are the best", "CNN sucks", "all mainstream archeologists are wrong", etc. He's just really a broken record

He used to have interesting guests and would actually be curious and ask good questions and listen. Now his guests are mostly mediocre comedians kneeling for him to become famous, MMA fighters or morons like Terence Howard. And on the rare occasion where he does have an interesting guest, he just talks over them and makes it all about himself and his 5 favorite topics.

EDIT: Yes I know Joe was never a good interviewer and it's more like a conversation, but he's not doing conversations anymore. A conversations include listening to the other person and asking questions. Not he just wants to hear himself talk which is not a conversation.