Funny how often the fix is changing the tool's shape instead of swapping the tool. Same thing happens with pens if your hand cramps up, people buy a whole new set when a foam grip would've done it. My mom fixed her knee pain by raising her desk chair an inch, not by getting a new chair. There's something to that old guy wisdom. Tiny changes to how your body meets the object beat big changes to the object itself.

Tbh the thing nobody brings up is how the week by week watch messes with your memory of the show. When you drag it out over years your brain just keeps the big fights and the hype moments and dumps all the little stuff, so people end up saying the pacing is bad when really they just forgot the parts that made it work. Binging keeps the whole thing fresh in your head so the slow build actually lands the way it was written to land. Also watching with your roommate changes everything because you get to talk about it right after each ep instead of sitting on your thoughts for a week. Two people catching small stuff together notice way more than one person grinding through it alone. The pacing complaints mostly come from folks who caught up and had to wait, not from folks who watched it straight through.