It isn't just their stupid choices. I'm able to look past those types of things in TWD because I enjoy the majority of the rest of it.
And as for your season premiere, that is your book chapter 1. It is supposed to be as engaging as possible in order to grab the viewers and make them want to see more. Instead of seeing that, here is a brief list of things I saw...
Terribly flat characters. Written poorly, and developed poorly.
Terrible chemistry between actors. TWD at least has TWD family and you can believe they care about each other on the small screen. FTWD has none of that.
In a similar vein, bad acting. With the exception of mysterious boat captain dude, I don't believe the performance of any of the actors... they all seem flat.
IT"S BORING! It is seriously every element nobody likes from TWD made into an hour. If you are going to make a horror-drama, where you put the zombies in the background, you better have some damn fine actors to produce some gripping drama and a beautiful script for them to work with. This show has neither, so you have a show with minimal zombies, and weak drama... not great.
And yeah, I'm done watching and I'm going to leave, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to voice my concerns for the show before I do. You can look forward to my comments dying off since I won't be able to complain about the future episodes. But I labored through that 1-hour drag they called the season 2 premiere, so I feel I'm pretty deserving of getting to say something about it.