It is clear why the original writers have left this projects. Executive decisions ruin the storytelling and character development that has made ATLA great. Sincerely, just wait until a fan takes this projects, cuts it apart and fixes it together with some ATLA scenes, so it becomes meaningful again.
Good writing has turned into action movie crossed with braindead slaughtering and fighting.
Anyone defending this mess has not understood the original, has not understood the characters and has not understood why the story telling has worked that well.