Clearly you and I seem to be having very different musical tastes as I don't think there's anything wrong with intentionally rhyming a couple of words if the melodies and other lyrics make up for it. I'm also not as enamored by Ashman's lyrics as you seem to be, and I think "A Whole New World" is one of the finest…

Who's the lyricist and what do you have against him?

That's a major plus point. Composers who have won an EGOT only increase the quality of the movies they compose for.