If the goal is to go from coal to gas without much additional concerns, then yes, it doesn't matter if fossil fuel subsidize increased or that the country get m

If the goal is to go from coal to gas without much additional concerns, then yes, it doesn't matter if fossil fuel subsidize increased or that the country get more dependent on fossil fuel imports. The goal was achieved and so it was a success. The critique they get is that there are other goals and the outcome of the strategy that Germany deployed had terrible outcomes. It costs too much, it has too much pollution, and it had very negative geopolitical consequences. It is also not a cheap way of hitting those last few percent of reliability, as is demonstrated with the increase in subsidizes and taxes to solve the issue of grid stability. A part of the issue is that the strategy assumed that market forces would force consumers to not consume during suboptimal weather conditions, but as has been demonstrated, citizens will vote to have the governments that provide a reliable priced energy grid. That makes the last few percent even more expensive as citizens don't want to pay the market price of a highly variable grid. Criticizing the outcomes of an explicit strategy is very much fair game, and it is still the official strategy in Germany.