Baffling isn't it? The writers do not have the option of retconning things that Asimov did - they have to deal with them has he finished them, not as he started them and also recognise that it is not even the 1980s any more, much less the 1940s, when the original trilogy was created. That's why the podcast is so very useful.
So here we are putting the pieces into place for the second crisis, with the key players on collision course, while Hari, Gaal and Salvor work out how to pick up the pieces wrecked by Raych's impulsiveness.
But still, here come the NTBers, with their oh-so-clever references to Michael Burnham (that really exposes the misogynous tendency, that one) for any strong female character; with their contempt for anything with emotional content and their complete inability to grasp the requirements of adapting a sprawling (and inevitably inconsistent) source material into a single narrative.
Still, it saves thinking, doesn't it?