Something else.
I watched/listened some nerd rage/gloat yt videos where they bitching about essentially everything in the show, and glad that it seems to fail among the audience. They are right in almost everything. These yt videos shouldn't exist.
Some of these also cut a footage of a bunch of nerds in some nerdbar with a huge telly on the wall above the bar erupting in cheer when the stuff coming from the erupting volcano blows Galadriel over and covers her at the end of an episode. This phenomenon, this consuming shit in a herd of fanboys also shouldn't exist either.
I find this fanboyism 9001% insane, and their hatewatching this turd similarly.
I understand the yt reviews. This show is obviously one that can generate them large number of views, and essentially together with Amazon can ride the popular unpopularity wave. They are generating buzz for the show, which shouldn't exist at all, they are doing a favor for Amazon, while themselves profiting from it.

Okay, back to the show.
One of the main problems, as I mentioned earlier is the pacing and it's scatteredness (in time and place).
Frequent criticism that it rapes the lore Tolkien created, and it's not Tolkien-like at all.
I think it is very Tolkien like, at least very book LotR. It is boring, schematic, empty characters, there is no character development, the "good" characters aren't act like they were, lacks humour, lacks romance.
It is also very movie trilogy LotR-like. Simply because all the scenes consists of recycled shit from it. Some are absolutely blatant.
And it is very anti-Tolkien, centering around all these stronk women doing manly things. Anti-epic as hell (maybe with the exception of the first episode), undersized everything. No fellowships, just 2-3 people cooperating and whatnot.

Found funny in the aforementioned yt vids how they and their audience, and the show's angry nerd audience named some characters. Guyladriel, Feminem, not-Sauron, not-Gandalf... I also came up with two, Frodoe and Samantha Gamgee. Too bad noone will know these products of my genius.