It is kind of impressive how bad this series messed things up.

Unlike GoT, the books are all finished and there's an entire game series that extends the lore.

They could have purely done a straight adaptation of either and they'd have had a built-in loyal audience, but instead they decided to loosely adapt.

That's fine and all- television is a different medium to use and like the games they could add to the lore- however when they do adapt from the books they bungle the messages and themes, so everything is all sorts of confused. It is like fan fiction that misses the point of the series.

I didn't mind Season 1. Season 2 was okay, but odd choices. Likewise with Season 3. I'm just mainly really confused by the decisions of the showrunners. Blood Origin was the only thing that was truly unwatchable. That felt like a tacky and jumbled Dungeons and Dragons play.

It is just all so weird. Usually when this occurs we are talking about unfinished source material, bad/weak source material, poorly aged source material, or hard to adapt source material. The Witcher books and games are really neither of those things. And different is fine, but either the showrunners didn't read the books/play the games much, or they missed the point/didn't care for them, which is weird in itself.