They were super clear from the outset that their main inspiration was Matt Fraction's run on Hawkeye in the comics, which was easily one of the best runs I've read in Marvel from the last 20 years; don't know where I'd put it in my top 5, but it's in there.
It's an
amazing run, visually and narratively, and the low stakes are a major selling point for it. They're obviously having to change things up (Kate was already established before Fraction's run), but the run-down Clint Barton just trying to get through another day dealing with low-rent gangster types is hilarious and I love it. I really think the complaints all come from people who
haven't read that series and have no idea what the show is going for.
I want to emphasize that this panel from early in the run (I think) is entirely unaltered; that censoring is exactly how it was printed;
The whole run is like this. It's Clint being run down and beaten around.