The show is simply just boring and there are no events to care about. All the interesting dialogues and scheming are gone and every discussion is just characters being incredibly dumb or snappy. Except the king who is pretty much the only interesting character. Other ones you just dont care about even though they should be the main ones. Even when someone is at danger or someone dies, you just dont have that same connection to them as you did in GOT.

The absence of meaningul and interesting events are then filled up with gory prolonged scenes (birth scenes), sensless fight scenes or then just showing some dragons for a while to give the audiences even something.

Overall, I would say that the whole series could have easily been able to fit inside 4-5 episodes. But more episodes and more money I guess.. Last season for me though.