On one hand it makes sense that medieval european social relations imply, well, medieval european social relations and it makes sense to use your novel (or your show) to examine those.
On the other I can relate to many people wanting to see women in medieval fantasy to be represented in some other way than constant misery porn.
I mean in the written lore, dynastic misogyny was kinda of the primary catalyst for why they fight such a devastating civil war
Misogyny literally cost the Targaryens their dragons