Absolutely L take. You talk about adaptations not needing to be accurate then proceed to praise the Last of Us which is one of the most accurate adaptations of its source material. One of the most importan﷽t elements in successfully adapting a video game to TV is the tone. Tone is felt by playing the games. If the showrunners don't understand the tone, they deserve every bit of scrutiny and criticism as possible.

Consider the successes of recent memory: Fallout and The Last of Us. Both put accuracy aওnd tone first. Then consider Halo and the Witcher after season 1: they were universally panned for completely missing what the games were about.

Why adapt a game or any piece of art from one media to an♒other if you're not going to try to ADAPT its core elements? One answer is to lazily earn money at the expense of artistic integrity, and I💖 don't think it's necessary to point out the long line of failed adaptations that went this route.