Attack of the Clones is the worst movie in the Skywalker Saga. Not only did Lucas double down on his mistakes from the Phantom Menace, but he also added an unbearable romance and made Anakin unsympathetic 2 films in. Padme would realistically dump someone who confessed the Tusken slaughter to her.
I thought that was a pretty popular opinion, unless you’re a prequel stan of course. But even the prequel stans seem to get into way less apologetics for AOTC than they do for the other two movies.
Either way, I definitely agree with you. AOTC is the only Star Wars movie that’s downright painful to watch. Every other movie in the saga has been made at least decent through fanediting, but not even the fanedits have been able to save Clones.