Was season one any good? I started watching it and found it a bit boring. What if..? To me means they can do crazy outrageous stuff, kinda like the futurama to the simpsons. But for marvel, the wildest thing they could come up with is: what if captain america was a woman.
The first season was fantastic. The first episode was definitely the worst. But you're missing the fact that Carter is radically different from Steve and that they had an Iron Man suit in WWII.
The problem is that nothing radically different happens in the story.