I actually enjoyed Raya and the Last Dragon.
For one thing, I think reviewers just generally failed basic media literacy, and only viewed the movie's moral narrative in terms of its ending — since, after all, that's usually how animated movies are these days, telling right to your face what its intentions are — so they interpreted Raya's moral as "just trust people", which is of course terrible.
They forgot the beginning of the movie, where the inciting action, the literal cause of a global genocide, was that Raya trusted someone too much. Really, for the first time in ages, Raya was a Disney movie with an actually complex and nuanced morality: Raya trusted Namaari, and Namaari betrayed her, and the journey was for Raya to, while simultaneously acknowledging that betrayal, learn to open up once again, appropriately, and trust people once more — including, ultimately, Namaari, through building shared experiences and understanding of different perspectives. It's a movie where four nations are at war, each trying to conquer one another, and none of them are actually the bad guy; the story is resolved through learning to set aside feuds, whether international or personal in the case of Raya and Namaari, to combat a greater enemy. It isn't about blind trust.
And finally, for the other thing...
I just like dragons. Awkwafina doesn't bother me. "My head is so close to my butt!" actually made me laugh. Despite my defence of it, maybe Raya is a bad movie, and it's okay to like bad things.
