I'm going to pointlessly shit-stir here for a moment.
As someone who bounced off the first TLOU game really hard and thought it was a largely uninteresting game with slightly above average character work and production values, I would argue that franchise was never good to begin with.
Aside from obvious bait, some of accessibility options, character animations and clever rope tech they have in TLOU2 are ridiculous.
Hell of a technical achievement. Whatever else you can say about the game.