As is true with everything, nobody cares if you think the show looks bad for story/narrative reasons. If you think it's bad for those reasons, that's fine. But the whole "lol LOTR fans are being the worst" is because of all the people bitching and moaning about it being "woke". And whether we like it or not, that is a fairly insignificant portion of the backlash that should be criticized and attacked, because it is yet another instance of fascism and neo-Nazism spreading into our world. And it's objectively terrible.
I understand it can be annoying that it "deflects criticsm", though whether a TV show's legit problems are getting addressed aren't as important as the above paragraph IMHO, but that doesn't mean our frustrations with this bigotry are any less valid than your concerns on the show, nor can we not go after this stuff.