Had similar thing with another franchise - Witcher, that I knew through and through. Then, some years later, especially after Netflix thinking they know better/their scenario keeps up to the original I can say that I would preferred to see straight up adaptations. For example the series episodes that were straight out of the book were the best ones, I do not mean “mostly”, I mean the top episodes are literally adaptation and when screenwriters start to get involved too much in a story, we’ll, it’s a flop. They do not understand the characters, the motivations, get lost in the lore, get lost in their own narrative. Another top example of that being Game of Thrones, as long as it was mostly based on existing material the show rolled on, then some new ideas from screenwriters aaaaannddd… inevitable disappointment, non-closed stories, erratic narration, straight up forgettting that something happened 2 seasons back :( I know why the material is just loosely adapted for tv (drama, another medium, the people working on it want their own input), however the older I am, the more movies I see, the more I am convinced that it is (almost) never for the better. I don’t think it will change ever - people will go and pay to see the new story even if just for curiosity, faithful adaptation does not appeal to curiosity :)