Right, not disagreeing. Hamhanded is the best way to put it in words of how I felt. I want to be clear - I'm not upset they did this stuff, just how they did it. It's personal preference, so I understand that others don't mind it at all, or as much.
My only serious complaint is Eren lashing out at Armin, which can be explained as him being out of his mind, but again I see that others don't mind it, so I'll shut up about it.
Other than that I just worry that the reason they're going so slow and padding things is because they're going to use a certain major event as the mid season climax, which is irritating because there is so much more story they could be covering, and it also points to an anime original ending which tend to be hit or miss.