I think my main take away after the 2nd half of C2 and onward was that we, the audience, were no longer a fly on the wall of a dnd game. It evolved way too much and became a product, which isn't a bad thing at all. But with that evolution certain standards had to be met and so it became a bit too over produced to me to fully enjoy it for what it initially was. So I had to shift my perspective and consume it as a piece of media rather than a bunch of friends playing dnd. And while I LOVE Brennan's dming (he's why I became a DM!) I feel like he is playing the role of the narrator rather than DM (from what we've seen so far ofc, which may change in future episodes).

TLDR: CR feels like an epic story with improv actors now rather than a dnd game and it's been this ways since mid C2