If the Fascist tells you 'it's the only way', there's for sure another way.
It was good. I liked the imagery. The message was mixed, but likely will be viewed as a positive for a majority of the audiences. Replacing a fascist institution with a somewhat-less fascist institution isn't good enough - Sylvie was right.
But trying to find a way that benefits everyone, with as little cost to those people as possible, is better. An extant concept like a tree, something that grows, and self-prunes, and generally manages itself in peaks and troughs, IS a better idea than a factory through-line keeping a single civilization of order in check. But Loki talked about changing the equation, and then never elaborated on it. He 'changed' it in the same way replacing a thing is also changing it, in a technical sense.
Having to keep tabs on a select group of potentially dangerous individuals For The Safety Of All, is... Not great. That's still some Fascy shit. They proved Victor Timely could absolutely be a better person, and didn't bother broaching that topic at all. That's where it all starts to feel rushed; there are many plotholes of far better solutions that still result in the outcome of Yggdrasil and a continuing universe of drama and imbalance for the sake of narrative.
Sylvie was basically a dead-end character outside of motivating Loki to get over himself. Loki just gave up trying to convince her, when he absolutely has the power to show her all of the memories he knows, so that she could instantly and immediately understand what he was going on about.
Kang, meanwhile, just sat on his hands like it was all good, and even after revealing that was intentional, STILL DID SO, which is fucking dumb. If KANG mastered time-slipping, why was ANY of this an issue for him? Time-slipping clearly allows a whole level of time manipulation above and beyond the Loom, the TVA, and the Sacred Timeline, and this capability being among his variants in any capacity would have ended in total obliteration of any version of any timeline, forcing him not to prune the lines, but to remove himself from reality. Or, to remove the ability to do this from reality.
None of the outcomes here were written by people that thought about it hard enough, I think. Certainly no one who's ever played a game like Mage The Awakening before. There was also no follow through on character growth outside of Loki and to a small extent Sylvie in S02.
There were too many obvious, easy-out moments in this whole situation to be sensible, even if the end result of 'a tree is better for this than a loom' is a decent conclusion to the idea.
Extremely rushed, mediocre follow-thru to an okay-ending, but, overall, wasted effort, I think. Hope Tom Hiddleston gets to make other things now. He's great.