My issue with such people is that I disagree with their take, not the basic premise that women should be treated as well as men, and male & female characters respected. It seems increasingly to me that such improvements are at best superficial and generally at the cost of other changes which expose that the critics or adapters are no more enlightened than anyone else, and considerably less perceptive.

A weird thing about the series is I have read accounts of female readers who loved the different ways the female characters were portrayed, how they got to be front and center in ways not traditionally accorded female characters in such genres. But when I first read it in my mid-teens, I liked it for similar reasons pertaining to my own gender and identification with the male characters. Where male-specific adolescent concerns and fears are treated with respect, even if not as important than they are, rather than being dumped on. The series I read immediately prior (Belgariad, Prydain Chronicles) featured young male characters it was easy for the target audience to identify and sympathize with, only they mostly consisted of older and wiser characters rebuking them and telling them what they want is wrong or dumb, while the female characters constantly "win" every conversation and embarrass them. It's not all that easy to identify with the Guy Like Me becoming High King or slaying a god at the end of the series so much as the constant belittlement that's supposed to be forgiven for a kiss.

Whatever the shortcomings with WoT, there was stuff for readers of both sexes to feel comforted by, to find a welcome change from what other authors expected us to swallow.

They could have just had her visibly leading the ceremony for the dead and give the speech kicking off the dancing. They could have had her say a line presenting Egwene's triumphant arrival from her initiation. They could have had Perrin say "Yes, Wisdom," when Nynaeve sends him home. There's so many little things they could have done without changing the plot or the rest of their adaptationally necessary alterations. Even if it does not fix the characterization, it shows you that she's important and a figure of respect, instead of an outsider orphan they duped into being the sacred-pool-cleaner.