Out of curiosity what do people want them to do otherwise? An hour and a half movie with humans vs zombies is one thing. But a show solely about that would get stale fast as well.
I've not read the comics, so my thoughts don't have anything to do with "being true to the comics".
First off, I'd like to see a little more action. If there is going to be conflict between The Whisperers and Alexandria et. al. I would like to see some of the conflict.
Second, I'd like to see a larger story arc. Maybe something around community building, or finding the helicopter people and creating a vaccine.
I still somewhat enjoy the show, but it seems to have lost a lot of the suspense and interest that it had managed to create over the first five seasons. Maybe there are too many characters, or the writing/pacing has changed, but it needs to either wrap things up or revitalize the story.
Finally caught up on the last two episodes and like others, thought they were pretty 'meh.' I wouldn't mind these so much if I thought they were building to something, but there wasn't anything very telling about Beta. Was he even a patient or was the "friend" he had locked up the patient? That was really poorly executed in my opinion. Outside of seeing how crazy Alpha is, it didn't do anything to build her character or her daughter's. I also didn't really get the "sisters" storyline. The surviving sister has no remorse? And the dead one survived Alpha just to get eaten later? Feels like too much filler.
There is some cool stuff coming - the whisperers have a battle tactic that other baddies haven't used, but they're taking too long to get to it. And Rick's whereabouts are taking too long as well. I think there's a whole different angle of storytelling if/when they can get to that. Seems like too far away at the pace they're currently going though.
I know the concept is that anyone could die at any time, but they've gotten rid of too many of the characters people care about. Rick, Carl, Maggie, Glenn, Jesus...I know people still cheer on Daryl, Carol, and Michone, but I could care less about almost all the other survivors. And they were already at a disadvantage taking out richer characters like Andrea, Hershel, and Dale too early on. I'm not sure they'll get to tell a complete story at this point unless they can get back to some remotely compelling storytelling.