"Ok I signed."

"Your total is $X.XX."

"That's not what I paid last time..."

Only two people in front of me and of COURSE both of them are doing it.

Was it the GFM one by chance?

Whether it's superstition (likely) or an attempt to game the system, it's a means to find the "best" thumbnail (and/or title) that gains the most clicks, without considering other options. I assume some do it to fool people into clicking the same video more than once, but that's the cynic in me.

She wakes up, they all dead (rip in piss lol) and she STILL blames herself and wants to die, and it takes the last barely alive family member and a talking motorcycle telling her "Sis, take the fuckin' W!" before she finally leaves.
Kino shows up after all of this and goes "Welp they all dead ig".

Then after a brat kid accidently saves her from her "oh no I didn't warn the shitty people" stew-icide attempt by throwing a rock at her, and asking if he can kill her for the funsies she STILL tries to warn them with another rock to the face as a reward.

This entire episode is Kino-less as we watch a girl sold as a slave for the world's most cartoonishly evil family and refuses to do anything to preserve herself, to the point she tries to save them from eating poisonous cilantro (which is an herb known by its more common name, "cilantro")

I know I'm not the best at getting subtle messages, but I was pretty sure I knew what most of the original episodes were trying to say.
These 2017 episodes are starting to feel more like twists for the sake of twists.

How is this getting worse? The last episode was just: Guy says he's waiting for someone who left, the town tells Kino that that person never left but actually died, the girl he lives with admits she WAS that girl, but was a spy, the guy admits he knows all of this but lets everyone think he doesn't.

Kino doesn't do anything interesting in these episodes, she just gets endlessly talked at or does something that ends up with her getting endlessly talked at.
I think the creative team heard that Kino always goes on an expedition, and accidentally heard "exposition".

WHY DO THEY KEEP BRINGING SHIZU BACK?! Why did we get a whole ep with him?

Why are all these resolutions either blatantly obvious, or such baffling shit that gets overexplained by someone exposition dumping nonsense details that were never hinted in the episode.
"Tell don't show" is their mantra.

Both series do a version of Colosseum and Land of Adults, but they basically speed-run Colosseum, and Land of Adults spends WAAAY too long on the singing scene which makes things really awkward and annoying.