I'm not calling the purple prose a weakness. It's fine for the original text (...mostly). But the original text wasn't written to be read aloud, and you can very easily tell. For something that is spoken, gotta do something else if you want to make a good show. Simple as.

As for content, I'm not trying to make anything toned-down or more palatable for general audiences. I want the things I personally think are gross or bad removed because I think it makes the story worse. It's nobody's opinion but mine.

In an ideal world, this thing would be like seventy episodes long, and it could take time to rework and even flesh-out other things, like maybe making actual episodes showing the beforus session instead of just text-dumping at us, or developing the characters that are just racial caricatures into something less-shallow. Adapt paradox space comics! But if we're really working with eleven mintues (I'm still not sure what the source of that info is?) and we're still in the modern era where a show would have to be unbelievably lucky to get more than three seasons of eight or nine episodes each (released about once every three fucking years, at that), clearly the better idea is to just limit the show's scope to what is most important.