There were a lot of games I watched and kind of cringed at and seldom did it really have the feel that the normal playoffs do.

The NHL also did a bubble with zero incident or hint of an incident and while the play wasn't razor sharp (lots of penalties overall) it was much closer to the feel of a standard playoff. It also had a lot of crazy developments within series.

The social justice stuff was a bust to me in all leagues. Very performative. The NBA players in particular had leverage like never before and they chucked it aside quickly. Not surprisingly it was the master of squandering leverage, the DNC, that led them to shift their platform toward the most milquetoast and non-controversial goal possible.