Agreed! I was so disappointed with the show because the books being adapted as a TV show could have been very successful if they stuck to the source material.
I think another way it could have been better is if they made it a completely different story, maybe focusing on the Seafolk or Sharans, any other untold/developed story, even another turning of the wheel, the collapse of the AOL.
Dyson sphere program is still one of my enduring favorites.