The thing about this criticism is, that the TVA has been clearly lying and been lied to by someone behind the curtain with at this point unknown intentions. What you are suggesting is that the big villain should hold a PowerPoint presentation at the beginning of a show where he lines out what and how he wants to accomplish, so that things aren't illogical to you.
As I see it, it is pretty clear that their nexus event detection machine has some weird algorithms on purpose. Why would Loki almost kissing Silvie on a planet that's about to go, create one of the biggest nexus events Mobius has ever witnessed? This question is for us, the viewers to ask ourselves. To make us curious and engaged, trying to figure out what's up.
But when you arrive at "the producers didn't think that one through cause nobody talked about 2014 thanos leaving his timeline" you just shot past everything the show was trying to tell you straight to the moon. That's why someone may get frustrated at your arguing or thinks you are a troll.
Since this show takes place right after the events of the Avengers, where Loki is a villain with evil intentions, I was siding with the TVA in the beginning of the show. It wasn't until after episode 4 that I felt there was enough content about them to side with Loki and Sylvie instead of them.
As far as 2014 Thanos and his actions go, I brought this up to use the TVA's own logic against them. Maybe Pai Pai Master is right and it will all come together in the conclusion of the series but up until now, if the show relies on the audience making conclusions then it is still a point against the show in my opinion. Most of the reactions to the show in this thread have been largely positive. I'm probably in the minority of being very critical of it, but that doesn't mean others should feel the need to make insults because of it. At the end of the day it is a tv show, and we're watching it because we're fans of the MCU. It shouldn't be taken so seriously to the point where people should start to insult one another.
Yes, TVA clearly has their own agenda and don't operate fairly. This is made clear in the first episode when they arrested gave the Avengers a pass despite causing some huge time anomalies and arrested Loki for simply escaping like he always does.
But also they didn't mention Thanos as a variant, or any other characters from Endgame because this show isn't about those characters.
I interpreted the dialogue in the first episode to mean that the Avengers were meant to time travel but that other characters in those timelines were not to deviate from their paths. A variant isn't supposed to equate to a time traveler, right?
This show isn't about Thanos but the show's premise is about changing your future. So I think it's natural for some people to wonder why the TVA didn't react the same way to him as they did to Loki.
It didn't come about from speculating or discussing for me. Hell, I knew it was the case BEFORE Loki even aired precisely because of Dr. Strange's actions. That was only confirmed further with a SINGLE LINE in episode 1.
Strange's personal time-traveling escapades in Infinity War essentially set up the ultimate hand-waving potential...predestination. While this made for an interesting premise for the two movies in that they had to lose to win, I'll admit that it's also made the future of the MCU potentially a little too easy to hand-wave away plot issues, especially as they relate to time travel and/or the multiverse. At least with Loki so far, they've also factored in the TVA's plotting as well, so the predestination in this case feels like part of a conspiracy rather than just entirely "handwavium".
You're saying from episode 1 you realized 2014 Thanos wouldn't be held accountable the same way 2012 Loki was because Ravonna said "The Avengers did what they were supposed to do"? Strange may have seen Loki escape with the tesseract in 2012 and seen Thanos travel to 2023, but that has nothing to do with the TVA. With the concept of "variants" introduced from the beginning and Loki still being portrayed as a villain at that time, I think it is natural to wonder why the TVA is operating a certain and specific way.