Multiple times this week, I've seen people discussing a change in an adaptation and frame it as, "The creators forgot about this" or "They made a mistake and left it out."
And that framing irrationally annoys me. No, you weirdos, they did not "forget" anything, they didn't "make a mistake." They chose to change or leave out that detail. Your next step upon realizing that should be to ask yourself: why? Why would they choose to make that change? Is it to make things fit better with the new medium? To cut down on time? Tighten up the pacing? Maybe they had a philosophical disagreement with the original work and wanted to challenge it, or maybe they're adapting the early chapters of long-running ongoing and the change brings things more thematically in line with the later installments. Maybe they couldn't render the thing due to limits of budget and/or technology so they decided to do something else instead.
There are as many reasons to make changes in adaptation as there are changes to be made and "They didn't mean to do it" is both the least likely and least interesting answer to the question of why.
When that one post that's going around says, "So many people are bad at critique," this is part of what they mean. If you're going to critique something, you will get more out of it if you approach your critique from the perspective that the creators knew what they were doing and created with intention.
And if you don't do that, it's frankly kind of rude. Would you take critique from someone who starts from the baseline assumption that you are too incompetent, stupid or lazy to do your job properly? Probably not, right? And you shouldn't! Which is why no one else should listen to you if you can't pay the creators the same basic courtesy.
