I tried to rewatch the show for the first time last month since the show ended. I told myself that it couldn't have been so bad after it began to increasingly deviate from the books, that I was just upset about it at the time.
Nope. I barely made it through S5 and while S6 had its moments, I realized I was only watching for a couple great moments instead of for the sake of watching it. I just wasn't enjoying it, so I stopped. In earlier seasons, epic moments like these were everywhere. It's no wonder the show alone built such a large fanbase early on