The Acolyte has been certified fresh at an amazing 93% 🍅

The funny thing is that if they did remove the ability to rate things these chuds will scream "censorship" despite abusing it.

So much retconning (and bad retcon) going on on that show they may as well reboot the entire saga.

Do you get kickback for anytime you mention that dipshit or post his videos? 

The show has problems, but not necessarily for the reasons some of these guys say it does.  Perhaps ironically, the show had the potential to be good, but maybe not for the reasons the showrunner intended, either. 

Here's what I don't like:  The writing, overall, is lousy.  Not from a Star Wars perspective, but just from a general story/dialogue perspective.  Character choices and decisions are borderline nonsensical, and characters contradict themselves within a given conversation or even a single sentence.  At one point Sol says, "Jedi don't take children," then immediately goes on to explain how he was taken from his family when he was four, and how the jedi academy has thousands of children.  (I suppose it depends on how you define 'take,' but they do run off with these kids even if the family is uncomfortable with it.) And again, generally speaking, the dialog is all choppy and delivered poorly by the actors.  But I have to say it's gotta be tough to spit this stuff out when it makes zero sense in the first place.  It would be like having students trying to read Middle English in a school drama class.

The retcons are a problem, but they're only a problem if they aren't explained by the end of the series.  Honestly, I don't care if someone else was created by the Force before Anakin.  That was a dumb idea in the first place.  Sure this goes against a plot point of the prequels, but maybe the Jedi were wrong.  Maybe they didn't want to accept it.  Maybe they were mind wiped.  But ultimately I just don't care, because it seems inconsequential to the actual plot of Star Wars to me.  But this Conehead Jedi even being there is anachronistic, so that's a problem in itself.  The good news is that for all casual viewers know, Beldar here is 500 years old.  Why he would speak falsely to the council is another matter entirely.  (Go back a few sentences for possible explanations.)  Either way I don't see how Anakin's journey is any less important or unique to the Star Wars universe if someone else was also 'created' by the force.  Anakin can still be the 'chosen one' whether his background is similar to another character, or if his mother had been knocked up by a Tusken Raider or gangbanged by Jabba's goons.       

Some of the other stuff you mentioned I don't really see as a problem, and it's actually what I like about the show.  We've only ever gotten the Jedi or Sith perspective on the Force and other Force users, I actually find this new religious sect an intriguing addition to the Star Wars mythos.  Hell, they don't even call it the Force.  How many religions are there on this blue dot we call Earth, is it so far-fetched that a galaxy filled with different cultures, beliefs and practices would see things a different way?  Mae mischaracterizes Jedi.  A lot.  But that's kind of the point, she sees them as evil, or at least as soulless goons out to enforce their views on everyone else.  Is she wrong?  That's up to the viewer, isn't it?  Of course we think she's wrong because we have a previous history with the Jedi and this entire universe.  One of the other characters says the 'Thread' is called the 'Force' by those who view it as a weapon.  And again, we know this is false, that the Jedi don't believe this.  But these witches see it differently.  I wonder how the Jedi come across through three episodes if The Acolyte was someone's introduction to Star Wars?  As a certain Star Wars character once said, "Good is a point of view."     

The shame of it all, to me, is that there's actually an intriguing story here.  Yes, there are gay characters, empowered women, minorities (DEI!), and whatever other boomer trigger labels you want to throw out there; But to me, that isn't what this story is about at its core.  It's like a great premise for a Star Trek TNG episode, but executed poorly at every level.  It's a moral quandary in space.  Who are the Jedi to tell these people how to use the Force?  Who are they to decide who deserves to wield a power, and how to raise their children?  How do you, the viewer, feel about a religious cult who forces children into roles they do not desire for themselves (and that goes for the Jedi and these witches alike)?  What should be the age of reasonable consent for a child to make a major life altering decision for themselves?  Are the Jedi or the witches right?  Are they both wrong?  Do the Jedi, as an arm of the government, wield too much political power in the overall grand scheme of 'preserving order' in the galaxy?

You can insert plenty of 'woke agenda' metaphors into all of this, and you wouldn't be wrong to do so.  By that definition, both Star Trek TNG and TOS are incredibly 'woke' properties going back decades.  But by that same definition, Star Wars was never devoid of politics or social commentary, either.  And there's still plenty of personal character melodrama to focus on in this show as well, it never (at least to me) feels like they're beating you over the head with some feminist or LGBTQ diatribe or anything.  Cranks like novastar see a gay character and automatically write off the entire project as radical propaganda, but we can't and shouldn't take idiots like that too seriously.

Now, ha, all that being said, this is still not a great show.  I respect that they're taking a swing here, it's a different kind of Star Wars story, and at this point I think that's a good thing.  (And honestly, this is the place for it.  Not in a tentpole movie; away from the core characters whose stories and personalities are well established at this point; in another corner of the galaxy, a hundred years before even the prequels.  I say go for it.  At worst, all I have to do is stop watching.)  But despite a few bright spots ("Who's he?"  "I thought he was with you."  I chuckled at that one.)  and a solid premise, the writing (and especially a lot of the dialog) is so cringeworthy as to make it really tough to sit through.  And if they continue to retcon established canon, soon the entire franchise will completely unravel, which defeats the purpose of calling this a Star Wars property in the first place.