Home Improvement was and still is popular... why remove it! I noticed Everybody Loves Raymond and the Cosby Show have both been playing a lot lately. Honestly, i don't know why so many people find those shows funny. I've watched them both myself and I don't think I laughed one bit... maybe once or twice but that's about it. Home Improvement is a sitcom I actually understand and can laugh out loud at.
There's a lot of reasons why. Ratings were probably slipping or were low, the network may have opted not to renew their syndication contract to keeping airing on their network. I'm gonna assume the latter because of the fact that it moved to TVLand. It happens all the time to syndicated shows.
This is probably going to be my dark side since I don't watch sitcoms, but I have to agree with the ratings, which is likely why they took King of the Hill off of Fox.
I have seen Family Matters, Malcom in the Middle, and Home Improvement. I never understood MITM nor HI back then, but boy did I find Family Matters funny when I first saw it.