Asimov was rarely faithful to his own work. He frequently wrote sequels where it seemed like he hadn’t even read the previous book he wrote decades ago.
The show isn’t been faithful to the book, but it’s been good and parts of it are better than the books while other parts are obviously worse.
Everyone I talked to knew that this was what was going to happen when Broadcom bought VMware. I work in a relatively agile industry so everyone starting moving away from VMware as soon as the sale was announced. But I know a lot industries will be stuck for awhile.