Yes... It's weird and awkward, disjointed.
Many shows ruined, unwatchable.
I even tried to watch Amazon's The rings of power... Eww.

I eventually went to entertain myself through torrenting picky niche things or watching some sports.

Propaganda... That's what that shit is called.
I couldn't even finish the third season of stranger things.

Another thing that I thought was that those series are kind of designed drugs. Since they must be studying and collecting data to drive the writing and have better snd l better timings and cliffhangers and themes...
So they kind of mutate to a morbid soft porn fluid producing algorithm in the form of episodes with the intention to maximise engagement of all sorts...

Fiat is fiating harder