Rewatching Foundation season one and realizing it would have worked much better if it hadn’t been told as a jumble of flashbacks and “35 years earlier”. The material is too dense, and early scenes make references to things the viewer would not understand yet because they haven’t been revealed.
There’s nothing wrong with a linear narrative. It’s especially annoying when non-linear is used as a crutch to add mystery when it’s not needed. Seems to be a fad in the past couple of years.
It’s a useful mechanism to introduce simple plot back story to explain an action or a choice but when it’s used to tell primary story it largely leads to confusion. The Witcher used it too and it caused a bunch of issues. Ian Banks scrambled a books chapters and guides were written on the right order to read the book.
I don’t know why writers like the technique so much since we are in time order beings and it’s how our brains work and while it can sometimes be fun it’s mostly annoying and often scrambles the story in the watchers/readers mins. I hate it as a technique for anything other than details that don’t matter much.