yeah it is weird how bad it is, it gets a lot of things right, the design is all great, casting is good, like some of the supporting characters, but it is like they never figured out what the show was about at its core.
I think a major problem was that the nature of witchcraft on the show was really muddled, sometimes it would be the historically oppressed minority angle, an alternative religion just a resistance to puritanical values. other times it was about eating corpses, human sacrifice and worshiping things that are cartoonishly evil, never really made sense given most of them are a decent bunch.
biggest misstep was the diminished role of Salem