I think season 8 is totally fine, Doggett is a good character and it was a nice change of pace after season 7, which has the worst episodes in my opinion. It is hard to get over Mulder being gone though.

Roku didn't even play ads for me when I watched Weird (and I had to disable my adblocker to watch it). It also struggled to stream the movie for me, regularly bouncing in and out of what must've been 480p or worse.

I think I was more engrossed in the main narrative and felt like most of the anthology stories were weaker (Kevin's story being the exception), but I was also expecting a big pay-off. I didn't realize it wasn't a mini-series like the rest of Flanagan's shows until it just abruptly ended without resolving much. Still enjoyed it, but yeah I agree, it's definitely not as good as his other stuff. Then again, I don't see how he could possibly top Midnight Mass.