Imo Season 1 dug Season 2's grave long before Reddit could. I think I noticed it in, like, the final three or four episodes while the William stuff was finally tying itself together, that the entire cast were either freed robots with a very screwy moral compass, chained robots with good intentions but little to no meaningful agency, or humans who are either douchy, irrelevant, or both. The only characters with agency tended to be characters who did awful things, so you're in a position where either you're watching a show full of assholes getting in each others ways or you're watching characters you enjoy accomplish absolutely nothing. Westworld Season 1 is a closed loop because it effectively removes all its jumping on attachment points.
The other big thing Season 2 fucks up is, uh... it's Jurassic Park with robots but we see very little of Jurassic Park with robots. Most of the action in Season 2 happens in the far reaches of the park where characters are either already in over their heads and ready for that or in the background where it's more like, robot apocalypse than crumbling theme park, and as a result a lot of that like, wonder and exploration gets thrown to the shits. They try to fix this by throwing in these new parks to explore but then that circles back into the pointlessness issue.
