Well tbf Samurai was boned regardless of what they did considering the whole Japan motive

they adapted Kakuranger and Hurricanger pretty well, and those are heavily Japan-based

Kakuranger was barely adapted and Hurricanger's stuff was ninjas. Not kanji, origami and Japanese family values iirc

Kakuranger was only used for 10 episodes. And they managed to spin their suits in Alien gear. Hurricanger, as Ninja Storm, was done the way it was because it went off the idea that people can be trained to be a ninja. But with Samurai being heavily motived with kanji and the like, it was an uphill battle. Maybe if they hadn't made them samurai in the US adaptation, it wouldn't have been so bad.

They could have embraced it and done a new plot, and not just do shinkenger's plot but remove the cultural context that made it work

Time Force is considered one of the better Power Rangers series, and isn't it a pretty straight adaptation of Timeranger?

Yeah, it is. Then again, Wild Force is a pretty similar adaptation, and no-one really seems to like that. I guess it depends on the original series.

Honestly I don't understand why someone would want the Power Ranger adaption to just be the same as the Japanese version?

Like I don't watch PR but at that point, just watch the original Japanese show?

Let PR be it's own thing and let it take elements and stuff from the Japanese show but not copy it and remake it wholesale.

its actually just writing quality

That would be fine, if american writers could actually write worth a damn in kids shows. Avatar the last airbender is probably the only GOOD american kids show I have seen, everything else is just utter vomit.

I would rather have a 1:1 copy of the japanese show over a butchered american version because japanese kids shows tend to have an actual plot and don't treat the viewer as a goddamn idiot.

I am NOT saying every sentai is perfect, what I am saying is that sentai at least tries to be more than a glorified commercial at times.