From the sounds of it, it might be good, but it won't be a good version of The Last of Us. So they might as well have just bought the rights to the world and then told a different story, like people wanted for Part 2.
Also, HBO isn't as bad as Netflix but is still pretty bad on the woke casting front - to be as bad as Netflix there would have to be black Targaryens in the new Game of Thrones show, and I don't know that there are, yet. Still, adding in diversity that doesn't make sense to pander is something all the streaming services are doing to a greater or lesser extent, most likely because they pay too much attention to Twitter and not enough attention to the people who actually pay for their subscriptions rather than sharing a friend's account.