I was not in the conspiracy-mongering, what-is-happening camp, and really just enjoyed the ride of the first 4 or 5 episodes. But as the SWORD stuff took precedence, the show just became more straight-down-the-middle Marvel stuff. It sounds like the finale is that to the nth degree, lots of floating with glowing sfx flying around.
From the jump I had the inkling "this sitcom stuff is caused by Wanda in response to her grief at losing Vision," and the show eventually confirmed as much. The second-to-last episode held that "reveal" (which I feel the show had already made clear to us), then turned into a bunch of typical superhero-movie blasting-one-another-with-colored-light "action," and the show distilled itself to a very boring villain/hero binary, where Agatha needed to be defeated in order for everything to be okay again. I just see no depth in that, and kinda hoped the show would conclude with a more emotional struggle, not "I've got to save my (made-up) kids!"
And tell me if I'm way off base on this, but is anyone else arching an eyebrow at the way grief is used as a device in this show? I've seen people call it an "exploration" of grief, but with the emotional depth of which the show's unwilling to scratch beneath the surface, grief just feels like a device. Pietro barely registered in Ultron, and the Wanda/Vision relationship barely had a chance to develop (remember when they were weird prisoner/roommates?), yet her entire motivation is based on the loss of the men in her life. And later on, her nonexistent children. There's definitely an argument to be had about this being one of the first Marvel properties interested in the inner life of a female protagonist, but it seems a bit regressive that the Marvel writers can only frame a woman's emotions and agency through the lens of motherhood (remember Ultron's "I'm a monster due to my inability to make children" Black Widow subplot?).
This show did exactly what the Mandalorian did, which was stand out for having its own tone and disconnect from the previous franchise installments, only to come running back to familiar territory as quickly as possible.