Should The Walking Dead return to a longer episode count?

Scott M. Gimple recently revealed there are discussions happening for The Walking Dead franchise to return to the original show's longer episode count of 16-plus-episode seasons, and I'm a little torn about this. In one sense, that bigger episode count can invite a wider ensemble that feels better balanced than the shorter spinoffs. That said, the original show's later seasons began to feel a little too long with their episodes, and since I'm already wondering how much life the franchise has in it going forward, I don't know that a long one is all that necessary, unless it closes the franchise out after a couple seasons.