I am glad that you liked that series. I find it offensive on many levels though. Thanks to Netflix, I can watch tv shows from around the world. Seeing a show set in Korea, celebrating Christmas gift giving, makes me wonder what cultural practice has been lost as a result.

Where are the stories and oral histories of your family that is being lost because they are not being promoted because of Netflix.

It is dishonest to the author.

There is a trend now where people will take an established character and will manipulate the character based on personal politics. I never read the original novels but I know that the were not based in an "alternate timeline." Every once in a while, people will write stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being homosexual. I have read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and homosexuality was never a consideration.

It is historically dishonest. What if Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was portrayed as being Chinese? Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. A series devoted to the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin would be historically accurate. Pushkin's maternal great-grandfather had been born in Central Africa. Pushkin was a member of Russian nobility.
Alternatively, there was French writer Alexander Dumas whose paternal grandmother was of Afro-Caribbean origin. Dumas' family were members of the French Nobility.
Why did the showrunner of Bridgerton decided to create a fictional history when a factual history existed. Laziness?