Apply this logic to The Dark Tower. Only true fans of the book can appreciate the movie because they realise what the movie is actually doing. Yeah okay, I’m a fan of the books and I definitely get what they were going for, but I also value all of the criticism leveled at the film. I still like it. But all the criticism is valid. Unless your beef is they made the Clint Eastwood inspired character black. Then we got a problem. Unless you’re saying it’s because the studio didn’t want to have Detta Walker hurling racist stuff at a white man, so they made Roland black to get around the problem. Then they took Detta out of the story entirely, along with Eddie. THAT was fucking stupid. But just making Roland black? Idris Elba made an awesome Roland and I will die on that hill. But the reasoning for casting him was dumb.

The point being… fandoms are highly contentious. This isn’t even getting into anime and manga, e.g. a popular series whose author got death threats for not having the main guy and the main girl hook up. My guy doesn’t like writing romance, he wrote about teenagers, there was no reason for there to be a romance there, but whatever, dude got death threats.

I say enjoy what you like.