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Given that Dragonball established character archetypes that DEFINED the shounen genre, manga that have come after have used those basic types as mere bases to create their characters. Thus, newer manga have characters that are more complex (and arguably more interesting) than the characters in Dragonball.
Also to note is, as the series moved on, the characters that got shoved into the background lost all their individuality and became nothing more than their flat archetypes.
And I don't care what you say about Goku. He's one of the flattest, most boring, most terrible characters in the history of storytelling. He eats and he fights and he can be arsed to "protect" his friends/family when it relates to the above, but he doesn't care about anything else, nor does he do anything else. You might be willing to argue that Vegeta's feelings for his family are the same way, but they are not. Vegeta had a dramatic change from fighting for himself to fighting for his family during the Buu saga. He blew himself up with full knowledge that his soul was going to be "cleaned". Goku never changed; he was always fighting for himself. When he died fighting Cell he knew he was going to get to go play in Heaven. Sure, seeing a loved one made him angry, but he didn't change for it. He made the same, selfish decisions about fighting Frieza at his full strength, and fighting Buu by himself that Vegeta made letting Frieza and Cell transform. Worse yet, he abandoned his family frequently just so he could go fight new people.
Goku can be distilled down to one single trait: selfish. He does what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, without caring how it affects anyone else. He loves his family and friends, but only when it is convenient for him and doesn't supersede fighting. He dodges any and all responsibility, and the universe constantly rewards him for it. Every other shounen MC has to face consequences when they are selfish; Goku never does.
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