I don't think the issue is the lockdown in itself or it being much more severe than anything that was done in other countries. It seems to me like the real iss

I don't think the issue is the lockdown in itself or it being much more severe than anything that was done in other countries. It seems to me like the real issues revolve around the mis-management of availability of basic goods such as food and medicines. And another common critic is that such strict lockdowns while surely working for the original strains of Covid-19 seem to be much less effective with the recent more infective variants. As a side note, it has IMHO still to be seen how much China fared better than other countries.