I always think it’s really so incredibly easy to just say things like this but whenever people do it sweeps away conveniently a lot of legitimate grievances and criticisms people have.
With an episode that’s actually quite well liked, and seems to have done quite well, to focus on a minority of people who didn’t like it and dismiss it as “hate” and “a lot of it is recency bias” is incredibly handwavey. And because from where I’m standing it is actually quite well liked and has done fairly well, I don’t really understand or compute it as being “a lot of the hate”. I can only read as “people who dislike it” and as I’m one of them I can most definitely tell you that it really isn’t recency bias.
I don’t dislike it because it’s the most recent episode, I dislike it because I think it’s a mess.