You made a good observation that showing a black actor wooing a white actress probably makes the KKK and Nazi types very unhappy. I hadn’t thought of that.
Your other points are well taken as well. As I said on an earlier thread, the writing is lazy, dull, and unoriginal, with chunks of dialog both large and small lifted almost verbatim from other equally average productions. It is just dreadful.
There's nothing new to offer in terms of storytelling.
Peter Jackson had done it 20 years ago. So what is Amazon doing with the story right now?