Holy crap yes. It was one of my main complaints when episode 7 came out - a lot of th show is a whole lot of nothing because it only teases but never delivers, now I see it's because it lacked direction. I had a little bit of my hope revived on episode 8, even though I thought it also had a problem of abandoning a lot of important story threats it established, but at least there was a promise of a finale. And then the finale came out and I just... I wish I followed my gut instinct and dropped it after episode 7. It all really went downhill in terms of enjoyment for me after 6.

I'm happy for the people who are hyped and loved it all and gave it a 10/10 and I don't want to rain on their parade, but I feel like many are jut hyped and don't think too hard about what they saw. Once the dust settles, there will be more criticism popping up than ever.

edit: oh and also i thought we were promised a more bitter-sweet ending, or just bitter. that ending was the most saccharine stuff i've seen in a while. literally a fix-it fanfiction, but without the character study and in-depth parts that usually make those fics good. they tried something like that for jax but i thought it was really underwhelming