A similar situation happened in 2009-2013 on Dragonmount when you were not allowed to criticise Sanderson. Dragonmount lost hundrends of regular commenters during these years.
If you cannot post anything about the show, because you are a 'gatekeeper', a 'homophobe', a 'racist' etc. why post it at all? This happened over reddit and other sites, and now the same 10-15 people cheering that the 'adaptation' of WOT is the best TV series ever.
And if say anything about things happen differently in the books, you became a bookcloak instantly, who cannot accept these fantastic improvements, which should have been made by Mr. Jordan, but he was just another white male who was not able to write compelling characters, magic with internal logic, a world with internal logic, and a compelling story.