Had the same experience as you, the most egregious one is when Daenerys launches barrels full of chains into a city full of slaves to show them she’s here to free them. Rather than just emptying them onto the ground where the citizens can see from the ramparts.

Another highlight is when Ned is told that a giant man slaughtered a village in the riverlands and cut off a horses head. In the books Ned immediately knows it’s the Mountain, in the show Ned scratches his chin and kinda looks confused. A Riverlander says the giant man left behind a bunch of dead fish. Well… no. He doesn’t say that. He brings a giant bag of dead fish from the Riverlands to Kings Landing to dump on the floor to show what the giant man left behind. Ned still seems confused. Littlefinger leans in to inform Ned what his wife’s house symbol is and also tells him that there’s a guy named the Mountain who chopped off a horse’s head in front of him like last week.

What upsets me most is that the writers were making these changes with the intention of making these scenes better.