You are not the asshole. Maybe you could've been slightly more polite about it, but that's honestly looking for a nitpick.
Assuming good faith, some people will need to be educated about these things before it becomes normal and comfortable for them, and unfortunately that education will be up to you more often than you'd like.
I'm not surprised.
I was enjoying it, but it was trying to bring in too many threads all at once, including Watergate and the Nixon tapes.
It was a simple show about bringing down a crime lord, establish that and stretch out in the finale.
Instead it felt like it was trying to set up a ton of plotlines rather than just telling a story.