Agreed. For some reason, I don’t like their US coverage. It’s not biased per se, but like you mentioned it often doesn’t click (not American, but I lived in North America for a decade).
It’s as if they can’t figure out whether they want to report as outsiders looking in or as if they are reporting from within the US. Better to stick to one framing. I actually prefer an “outsider looking in” perspective as some of the US-based internal-focused reporting is not for me.
As weird as it sounds, I do like NYT for US coverage (from the US) and I tend to avoid their coverage on Europe.
It’s all in your [their] hands.
Whether we will or not is a matter of what America is like.
I am not making a judgment call here, just an observation.