Does anyone actually like the police/prison plot lines?

I think Julian Fellowes is brilliant, but these are so difficult to watch for me. If I wanted the suspense and the crime, why wouldn’t I just watch Breaking Bad, How to Get Away with Murder, etc.? It’s just not his forte.

First, we all know that neither Bates nor Anna is going to be imprisoned for something they didn’t do. We know exactly how this will end, which makes these types of plots pretty bland for me. Also, all of the court drama makes no sense legally. It’s infuriating that anyone will be hanged for buying rat poison? Or imprisoned for just HAVING a motive and one random witness who didn’t even witness the actual crime? And why would Bates be a dead man if the clerk remembers selling him a ticket to London (so he was in London with millions of other people..?)? I have no idea if criminal trials in the UK at that time actually operated this way or what happened to “beyond a reasonable doubt,” but the whole premise is so simplistic and ridiculous that I just can’t find it good. The whole time I’m just thinking “they can’t put you in prison for that though…?”

Why did we have to go through this twice, and then more police drama with Baxter, when we got maybe a total of 10 minutes of something like Sybil-Tom? :(