On the crappiness of Hollywood adaptations

A thread on Sanderson's opinion on the matter just got removed, I imagine because of general Sanderson spam (and the linked article was kinda crappy tbh), but I think the subject itself is interesting. I'm pasting what I posted on the other thread below, and I'd like to hear your opinions. Mods, I hope this thread is okay.

I have a lot to say about this and little time, so let me ramble incoherently:

1: In many ways, Hollywood is stuck in the dark ages. To be a TV writer, you have to live in LA. There's some (not much) leeway for screenwriters doing features, but for TV you legit have to live in LA in the vast majority of cases. This means the industry, for all its talk of diversity, only really accepts writers from one single nationality who live in one specific country in one specific city. This is why, to me, The Witcher felt like a high-budget LARP session. There is zero sense of culture, because there is no connection to the story's culture.

2: More subjective: there's still a huge feeling of nerd shame. You can see this in the MCU. The dialogue never gets to breathe for long because the movies both treat you like you have super ADHD, and don't really believe that some dude in a cape talking about magic stones can really be taken seriously. You can see the opposite of this in anime (and I'm the farthest thing from a weeb): a premise can be 100% ridiculous, but the stories are always earnest. There is space for ridiculousness even in non-comedy stories, but there's no sense of shame, not a wink of: "This is stupid, right? Haha, let me acknowledge it, I swear I'm cool and not a nerd." A tangencial example is FromSoftware videogames, or Japanese videogames in general. On paper, a lot of stuff in Soulsborne games are flat out weird fiction. There are fewer artistic shackles. Or even the Yakuza games, if you wanna enter batshit territory. They're earnest and shameless.

3: A lot of Hollywood writing, arguably the majority, is adaptations/remakes/sequels. So you got these writers who had to move to LA and serve coffee for dinosaurs in suits who eventually get a chance to actually write something. And it's not original work, which is what they likely dreamed of. So these creatively starved writers try to make the stories their own. Only they're inexperienced (because they never get to do original work), some might not have gotten the job purely out of artistic merit, and often they don't even like the source material that much. The result is a fanfic, only without the passion of an actual fanfic.

4: "Wokeness" is a boogieman, but condescension is an actual problem. You have all these people, I don't know if the writers or the higher ups, who believe the audience has 0 media literacy and that depiction equals endorsement. Like a review of Dragonage: Veilguard said, it's like it's written by the HR department.

5: Sometimes the stories get neutered from above, like how Netflix tells its writers to make the character announce what they're doing, for the audience who're on their phones. This approach is inherently incompatible with the storytelling you see in books, because even the breeziest book requires full focus.