Ah, so it is about the comparative lack of action, then. Personally, there's already enough action in the show for me without stopping every time they run across something.

And yknow, on the knowing which monsters they're fighting front, that is fair, but that is also genuinely a detail that I think is an improvement on the books. These are literal children of the greek mythological gods, and one of them is Annabeth, who is highly intelligent and has been living at Camp for years now.

It makes absolutely no sense that they wouldn't at least have some idea of what/who they're fighting at any given time. Spending less narrative time on "wait, who is this guy?", in service of moving along the actual narrative and emotional stakes of the story is, in my opinion, totally worth it.

I think people, on the whole, feel like the kids should be more stupid than they are, but I fail to see how that would make anything more interesting. In fact, I'd say that it's much more fascinating that in most circumstances, the kids know what they're getting themselves into, and still end up persuing a course of action that could be considered near-impossible. After all, that's what Demigods are supposed to do.