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Well, yeah, she has a right to free expression.
We have the right to ostracise her and anyone espousing the kind of bigotry she expresses. That's up to and including HBO or it's affiliates
But, separate from that, her involvement is a disappointment on quality level. As much as I love the books and goddess movies, the woman is a mid tier writer. Which is still better than most people, but if she's influencing production decisions along her established works, then the new stuff will be just as flawed as the old because she's run out of new ideas and is coasting. She's neither necessary nor useful to a series based on an established set of books
Do you think it would be possible to make the series faithful to the books (or at least more than the films were) without her involvement?
Absolutely. All it takes is a competent script writer and director. Adapting a book to a movie is harder because you have to cut material for time. A series based on a book, you have plenty of time, so you can pretty much take the dialogue as written, and the rest is about set construction and costuming with whatever effects are needed.
It isn't like it was with game of thrones where the series wasn't finished. Even there, they diverged from the books enough that they didn't really need Martin the last two seasons if they wanted to diverge even more and ignore what he intended as the finale.