It's nice to see the show get positive critic reviews. General feelings about a season are of course going to be subjective and rose colored glasses are a possibility. I submit that the opposite is also true, it's possible that thinking of what you disliked can obscure things too. Essentially something leaving a bad taste in your mouth makes it harder to taste the sweet stuff. An example of this is LP you remembered Alex and James finishing Ben off but not that Kara beat him in a pretty good fistfight before that.
In my defense, I
did feel like she had that clean unassisted victory, I just couldn't place it! LOL
As far as positive reviews go, I'm happy they are out there, even where I disagree.
I suspect the topical nature of the season along with the political viewpoints expressed and jabs taken at the current US administration bought a lot of goodwill from the audience in general and online reviewers both of which skew progressive. Jesse Schedeen at ign shocked the heck out of me with that 9. He'd
never let the kind of things this season did slide in his reviews for previous seasons.
But whatever the case, if it encourages people to tune in and help the show succeed and have the opportunities to do even better in the future, I'm all for it.