I hear some people call it fair adaptation, it has closer story to the books. Showrunner also said that season 2 is going to be based more on books than season 1. Story AND world itself will be the same dark and interesting, will have many brilliant dialogues and all of it seasoned in well thought fantasy magic world of the witcher.

Without further ado - none of that was delivered as promised.

Season 2 showed us mediocre world that might be just as good as nonwitcher not just because it lacks a lot of details which made it THE witcher, it also lost it's soul and on top of that there's also a feeling which I had in GOT season 8 - something went terribly wrong in the most important aspect of what made the witcher one of the best fantasy of the world - it's not made to be liked, it's not made to be interesting and flashy. It just shows hard, cruel world, full of hungry creatures and even more flesh hungry men with carrousel of political affairs and in the same time showing the basics of life. And that's why we loved it from the beginning.

Netflix did it's best to release interesting fantasy world and it is, to some point.

Sadly, it's not the witcher anymore.

And one more thing from one consumer to another - it's just morally weird to wave on the popularity of brilliant games and even better books, making promises that the show's lore will match books and then make something like that. It's just disappointing.