To be fair, counting the children when they are in the car (all children who entered it are still there, obviously) instead of before they entered the car seems a little suboptimal.
I feel Apu and his family wasn't quite this stereotyped in the 90s. Most it had was visiting the quickimart guru on top of a mountain to get his store back, but that's more a generic trope than an indian one. Can kinda see why they removed him tbh.
You know every character in The Simpsons is a living stereotype more stereotyped than the other and you're a f-ing hypocrite, woketurd? Plus, they're planning to reintroduce Apu until they find a new voice-actor because woketard virtue signaling Azaria retired, not removed for the reason you think, so the joke's on you, woketurd! Now cry!