Without Roseanne, 'The Conners' Go On
The first episode of the post-Roseanne era of the Roseanne revival struggled to make its jokes land, but it proved that there's plenty of story there to make a good show.
Two groups of people don't care at all about how the first episode of — without Roseanne — was. The first group doesn't care because they found Roseanne Barr the real person so personally and/or politically noxious that avoiding this project, made as it is by a network and a team willing to work with her until relatively recently, is a matter of principle. The second group doesn't care because — technically, by the cancellation of the show she was on and the recreation of a show she emphatically is on — that avoiding this project, made as it is by the network and team going on without her, is a matter of principle.
