Personally, I didn't really mind Wesley in the later seasons and a few of the Wesley-centric episodes were pretty good. It's really the first season, and even more so the first few episodes of the first season where he was annoying as all hell. Oh look, boy wonder saves the ship, yet again. Unfortunately that kind of seems to have stuck with the character, despite the show toning down his antics significantly after that.
The later Wesley episodes are good because you see him as a bright young man trying to do right in the world rather than a precocious kid who solves problems the grown-ups can't.
The writers didn't really know how to write the Crusher-Picard relationship(s) in the early seasons.
First season Wesley is sad to hear you didn't like him
Personally, I didn't really mind Wesley in the later seasons and a few of the Wesley-centric episodes were pretty good. It's really the first season, and even more so the first few episodes of the first season where he was annoying as all hell. Oh look, boy wonder saves the ship, yet again. Unfortunately that kind of seems to have stuck with the character, despite the show toning down his antics significantly after that.
The later Wesley episodes are good because you see him as a bright young man trying to do right in the world rather than a precocious kid who solves problems the grown-ups can't.
The writers didn't really know how to write the Crusher-Picard relationship(s) in the early seasons.
First season Wesley is sad to hear you didn't like him