I wasnt feeling LC from the moment they killed Cottonmouth. Killing off of the most compelling and charismatic character halfway through the season was asinise. Like, blatant stupidity. Very seldom does the red herring antagonist bait and switch pan out. Diamondback was absolutely atrocious in comparison, and the Shades' actor annoyed the living fukk out of me to the point that I wanted to skip his scenes. I was going to watch season 2, but I lost interest early and went straight into DD S3. Never watched Iron Fist as the actor playing Danny is a blackhole of charisma and the word was that the fight scenes were terrible quality for a guy who was supposed to be the greatest martial artist in the MCU. I made it halfway through JJ's first episode and checked out.
I'm not surprised LC & IF bit the bullet. I'm in DD S3 Ep 5 and it's already better than DD S2. I thought the Punisher had some bloat in the middle but I enjoyed it. Hell, Bernthal as Frank Castle was the major highlight of S2 DD imo, and I'll be there for season 2. I couldn't care less about JJ or IF, but I was rooting for Luke. It's a shame it didn't work out. I think the Defenders being such a mediocre letdownn was the death knell for what was already -- in LC & IF cases -- average shows. They honestly could have made the Defenders Marvel's street level Avengers and put out an actual 2 hour film on Netflix instead of the season we got. Would have trimmed a lot of the fat too, but if the story is still hackneyed and the individual characters poorly received, there's not much you can do to convince people to invest.