Just watched What If Season 2's finale. Been waiting to say this.
Did anyone else not like or even outright dislike this season?
I'll try to get to the point, while being (somewhat) as detailed as I can:
*Strange Supreme was a fan favourite character (with his episode being the 2nd highest rated one between both seasons on most websites) and in S2 he gets turned into an antagonist (again...), tries to bring back Christie (again...), is willing to sacrifice numerous lives (again...) and goes full demon (again...) before getting killed off... yikes!
*Strange Supreme went from carrying the Guardians of the Multiverse in their battle against Infinite Ultron to getting beaten by Captain Carter and a completely new, original character in Kahhori... double yikes!
*Captain Carter was able to effectively use the infinity stones, Hela's crown and various other god tier weapons/items with little to no issues while Kahhori went from struggling to block cannonballs to keeping up with "universe killers" and "multiversal threats" in an unknown period of time plus was also able to use god tier weapons/items... triple yikes!
*Tons of PiS/CiS; Infinite Killmonger instantly dusting IG Thanos yet choose to confront Peggy and Kahhori in a physical confrontation afterwards, Strange Supreme creating prison dimensions with the outer durability of actual glass, Peggy being able to hold all the Infinity Stones without dying (according to WoG Kahhori placed a barrier on the stones, that was tough enough to protect Peggy but flexible enough for Peggy to safely harness "infinite power") and various other narrative/scaling issues with the S2 finale, quadruple... yikes?
Tl;dr The season finale was highly divisive, it killed off a fan favourite (Strange Supreme) while propping up another to be the "MC" (Captain Carter) which only made that said character polarizing while other characters (Gamora, Spider-Man, Quicksilver, etc) were either underutilized or outright forgotten plus much of the storytelling in the finale felt rushed (not helped by yet another episode being pushed back to next season, just like what happened to Iron-man and Gamora's episode that was originally marked for S1 but got pushed back to S2).
As a result of the fallout of the S2 finale, most MCU supporters don't really care about making new profiles/additions for What if...? S2 characters plus Kahhori's whole existence is a giant can of space worms no-one wants to open (nice power set and design tho) moreover as already mentioned above, losing two hardworking staff MCU supporters was a major blow too.
As for the rest of What if...? S2, the general consensus is, it has a more consistent standard whose lows aren't as bad as S1's lows but as a result it's highs weren't as impressive as S1's either also Kahhori's episode did offend parts of the Spanish/Hispanic communities as well as parts of the indigenous native American communities too, so yeah... not really a motivating force to do anything index wise.
CRTs are ongoing but it'll a hot minute before there'll be a "Infinite Armour" key on Captain Carter's (What If...?) profile let alone profiles for Kahhori, Hela (What If...?), Hulk Hogan, etc.