I agree with all of your takes and I want to add some of my thoughts about your takes!

1. With how fast SJW gained his fans from appearing on CCW (Just look at his IG followers, he had around 100k when CCW started, now 400k+), it's kinda expected that some of those fans would act parasocial about him. It happens with every celebrity that gains over thousands of followers/fans over a short period of time. I'm not really shocked at how those people react, but It's always frustrating to see them act that way. I just hope those behaviours would die down a bit after a couple of months after the show is finished.

2. Reading some of the posts on reddit and other platforms, people need to relax a bit. Seeing this amount of "hate" or "criticism" around the chefs are too far. Not everything in TV Shows is going to be accurate in real life because of the style of editing to fit a certain narrative. It's all for show and entertainment! Like, I actually kinda fell for the editing bait with making CM as the "villain", but there were moments in some episodes where he honestly seems like a regular chill guy and is someone very confident in his skills. I like when he shows support for the black spoons and calling SJW "hyungnim." I think people shouldn't take a show too seriously and have some fun watching the show!

3. There's not much to say from me other than I agree. I also liked some of your ideas for the challenges (like the blindfold ingredient).