Cardiff Bay overrated?

I just don’t get it when people go crazy and drop thier knickers at the idea of visiting Cardiff Bay (or down the docks as we say in Cardiff). It’s literally just a few chain restaurants you can visit in any city and a Wetherspoons. Would somebody like to resell the bay to me because in over 25 years of visiting mermaid quay I’m yet to find anything particularly unique fun or enjoyable about the place?