Honestly it looked semi interesting. I got Color Out of Space vibes from the trailer, which was great IMO. Than I read a interview with the director and realized it was woke. Not my style and I decided to skip. Glad I did since its not getting very good reviews. But your opinion seems to be spot on from what I read.

Yes indeed, I read later a little bit in some review about it and then realized that yep, this was indeed woke. And after that the things that confused me about it fits into the general blurryness, gender and identity confusion that is the foundation of this thing.

You can be glad you didn't waste your time.

how incredible is someone that just watched a queer horror and not realized it

You might be surprised about the traps that regular people fall into when they want to watch something they can relate to. This is not an exception.

sure, Mr. Regular Person

I really liked this movie, but felt it's strength was in that the film itself doesn't explicitly communicate it's trans inspiration and themes (while still being heavily fuelled by them obvs), and so I feel it's limiting to regard it as just a "queer horror" when it's themes are much more universally relatable than that; being trans is not a prerequisite to hating who you are, and self-dissatisfaction and regret is treatable in more ways than simply lopping off your bollocks.

And so I was glad that I watched this relatively blind, and only afterwards learnt it's more-clear inspiration when learning of Schoenbrun. Even if Schoenbrun may have perhaps felt that the existential angst communicated is something that's the chief domain of those who are trans or queer (which is a presumption, but is the sentiment that's clearly held by the vocally self-obsessed queer, "woke" fanbase of this film), it's likely impactful to a larger audience because it's sentiment goes beyond simply identity politics. It's ending is a gut-punch because it displays what results from the morbid fear of "fucking up your life" and amounting a high level of overwhelming regret where you're left with merely enough strength to keep shuffling anxiously onwards; you do not need to be trans to relate to that, most of us fear that, and it's to the film's strength when I think this gets glossed over by a fanbase that seems to largely want to see this pain as "just theirs", an exclusionary attitude of self-pity that I've no time for.