>They're super misogynistic.

I looked into the Witcher subreddit, when Henry Cavill announced that he was leaving the series, because I wanted to see how the fans reacted to this. Apart from some reasonable comments that suspected he couldn't do both, now that he's Superman again, there were many who believed that he could no longer bear the butchering of the story and characters that he so loved.

Given all that I know about Henry Cavill (dates very young women and had a problematic first reaction to #metoo), that might even be true.

I initially wanted to read the books, because I very much enjoyed the Netflix show, but I passed on them, when I became aware, what exactly people were complaining about in the show versus the books. No thanks to the misogyny.

I think book and video game Geralt is a "I wish this was me" character to a certain kind of man, as is "hot nerd" Henry Cavill. What they fail to understand is that a true-to-the-book TV show would have been slaughtered by the critics (and rightly so), if it had ever been green-lit. They may think that "pandering" to "wokeness" and "political correctness" doesn't matter, but any adaptation that only aims to please the fans of the source material won't get the viewing numbers necessary to make it a sound investment. Alienating 50 % of humanity isn't helpful, when you have a large CGI budget.