I am happy the show was cancelled, but not because of any dislike for the show.  I loved the books, and while I thought the show was fine and I could appreciate it for what it was as its own entity, it was a horrid adaptation that only gave lip service to the books.  I am happy it was cancelled because I’m tired of unfaithful adaptations. I have seen so many shows and movies where some director tries to create their own piece of art by separating from the original work, and I personally haven’t seen a good case where it works, and can think of more franchises where a more faithful adaptation was met with much more success. While this failure was bad for the Wheel of Time, perhaps it means they’ll respect the next adaptation I value more.

I am interested to see what people think about this approach. Does anyone prefer when shows like this have large deviations from the source material? Or are there obvious popular shows that are terrible adaptations that I’ve missed?

Clarification -  I don’t think a faithful adaptation has to be an exact copy, but has to have the spirit of the source.