they don't advertise for film critics in a newspaper

The short form is I think they had the makings of a great film and they made an okay film. It's like if someone made Bladerunner based on what they thought 2017 audiences would like, rather than if they'd made Bladerunner. Very few of my quibbles are about visuals; the visuals of Bladerunner 2049 are gorgeous.

( Apparently I have lots of opinions about a sequel to a movie I thought couldn't have/didn't need a sequel, a sequel which at some level I'd wanted for literally decades. )