If you’re the executive producer, it’s your fault that your team members fucked it up.
Again though, that’s not true.
The Television producer hierarchy has Showrunner at the top, that would be Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. Tomasz Baginski was just an EP on 16 of the episodes, so would not have been in charge of determining the overall series plot.
This entire interview comes down to “those lazy zoomers don’t know how to appreciate good film.”
Yeah, his complaints are that Young Adult material is simplified to be able to hold their attention, that’s not controversial, that’s not new, that’s been the case for literally ever. It’s why book stores have Young Adult fiction separate from more complex and heady adult fiction.
The Witcher found success on TV as a YA show and that has forced them to simplify the plot, something one of the producers didn’t appreciate.