I haven't seen the show, but let me say I do understand when people are disappointed over changes. My best advice, for any who would like to take it, is to always say to yourself it's not important, it really doesn't matter. I'm not being simplistic or sarcastic or critical -- it literally occurred to me one day as I got older that nothing on this pop-cultural level matters. If AMC announces tomorrow that Rick from The Walking Dead will be killed off in the next episode, it simply doesn't matter. Yes, that would be disappointing...but it probably would be a great business decision. In fact, if I were a shareholder of that company, I would ask the board of directors if the budget on the program could somehow be more contained. To do that, maybe some star actors on the program would need to be cut from the roster (remember, no one is supposed to be safe on that show; and some agent will overprice his star client at some point). If that were to happen, in all seriousness, would the world stop spinning, would life be ruined? There would be an outcry, but hey...the storyline would continue. To be honest, too, I sometimes enjoy radical changes in stories.
As for having to subscribe to Hulu, well...I understand anyone who would complain about that, but the other side of the coin is content is not free and the content makers and distributors have to be paid. Franco and Abrams are probably overpaid, I agree, but shareholders of Hulu -- and I as a Disney shareholder am, in a sense (a very, very mathematically small one, to be certain), an interested party in Hulu -- deserve to see people subscribe to the service. Releasing all the episodes at once unfortunately might mean that people wouldn't keep the service after they watch the show. But perhaps there should be a way for Hulu to experiment with that sort of thing, to release the episodes all at once and still add value to the model. (Maybe when a new show like this is released all new subscriptions should be obligatory six-month sign-ups for a certain window of time...no one really knows the answer to this kind of digital distribution.)
Like I say, when I was younger, I didn't like changes in a movie adaptation. Now I find it more compelling. I didn't like King connecting The Dark Tower to books in which I wanted the rules to remain their own and not be a part of a different supernatural ecosystem...I might still feel that way to some degree, but I mostly find it fun now. He could turn one of my very favorite villains, It, into another version of Flagg and I simply wouldn't care.
Let today's new and praised protocols of episodic storytelling, the ones that brought you the aforementioned Dead as well as things like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, get you into a new version of this particular piece of King's overall mythos.