A former co-worker of mine who is a huge fan of the Wheel of Time books (pretty liberal but hated the show because it didn't follow much of the source material) showed me a shill article anticipating the next season and dismissing people who didn't like it as lore nerds who want everything like the books.
I am very sick of the attacks on people who had been fans of the original source material of an IP. I haven't seen the list in a while but I think that was one of the steps of geekergate that Itchy Bacca made. As for Wheel of Time I knew it was dead on arrival when the showrunner couldn't shut up about female/lgbt representation. Yes there is mention of pillow friends and the demigods seem to find pleasure with men and women, but in the 14 very thick books mention of that isn't very prevalent, but along with taking things that Rand does to give to female characters, he seems intent to "representing" lgbt.
The larger point is that it is laughable when people who say to respect the lore/source material are attacked as racists/sexists. When Disney bought Star Wars I remember so many articles praising the erasure of the EU, and while Disney has the right to do what it wants they would've been smarter in at least doing some sort of animated adaption of EU content like DC does with alternate storylines.
Sorry for the rant but the whole "nerds are evil" mindset really annoys me because it seems like a lot of these people who get control of these IPs or are hired as writers were the very people who laughed at those who played video games, read books, or comic books but once nerd stuff became trendy (thank you BBT and MCU) now everyone is an expert. Poster child for this is Anita Sarkessian. She really strikes me as someone who never gave gaming a second thought til she saw the money to be made whining endlessly about girls in gaming.
That was a foregone conclusion when the series ended up being over a dozen fairly sized books set across 3 or so years time wise.
Jordan dying certainly didn't help things but neither did his spiteful reaction to the fans working out Taim was Demandred where he told them they were wrong then changed what he was going to do despite all the hints, which was why it was worked out in all honesty, and then subsequent plot holes changing it so Taim wasn't Demandred in the end.
And as another lore nerd it's certainly posed me off countless times when I see "fans" arguing about a franchise to then turn around mid argument and admit they haven't even finished the fucking thing! Have had that happen on the Witcher sub a few times where normies new to the franchise are arguing show defence points without realising how much of a clusterfuck the show change is in regards to the lore.
I don't think that's a thing?
As per Jordan's own notes the original plans for Lord of Chaos actually did have the infamous "Taimandred" theory be true.
The prior material published creates the plot holes because the clues connect the two so well because they really were the same person in earlier drafts.
I finished WOT books last year and I will probably buy the Witcher books later this year. I played Witcher 3 and it was fun but I want to get familiar with the lore