Sadly also the 2nd Season shows that the showrunners don't care that the main focus of the books is about Ciri and Geralt, her coming-of-age story, both their fights with big responsibilities and their journey together and their adventures apart.

Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against changing the source material, if you can improve the story or tight up different storylines, but please don't make the opposite.

At the latest the "Hobbit"-films should have shown, that artificially extending the source material doesn't make the experience any better. Above all compared to the "Lord of the Rings"-films, which knew, when to tighten things up to give the story more focus and depth.

Although the books should give enough interesting topics for just 16 episodes, they try to invent backstories for Yennifer probably to extend the show as long as possible. Like in "Game of Thrones" the quality goes way down when the showrunners choose to leave the source-material and add new stuff.

Because of Yennifer invented and stretched story arc, "The Witcher" feels like "Harry Potter" meets "Charmed" meets "Game of Thrones", but sadly not in the best ways, just to get as much audience as possible.

And if the argument is feminism and that there has to be a strong lead woman, than please focus on Ciri and don't let Yennefer walk around half naked over and over again without any reason. (Nearly half the episode "What is lost" she is without any top, but maybe the titles refers to her top and not to the short-story.)

In an Interview Henry Cavill said "If it isn't broken, don't fix it". So why do change everything, try at all costs to drag it out as much as possible and ad new mediocre stuff to it. In Episode 12 we finally reach the beginning of the first book and two episodes later the first book is done. After 2 seasons already a few characters are dead, who lived throughout all the books, games and comics. Just to give the audience some cheap "Game of Thrones"-Vibes and shock-moments.

I think after "Cowboy Bebop" Netflix ruined 2021 finally another beloved franchise, just to get more audience and try to make as many seasons as possible. Really sad.