ayrt - I'm not sure it was really intended to endear anybody to the Punisher because Ennis had a big, very vocal problem with the costumed heroes at the time and Ennis!Frank was always going to try to hammer that point home in his own titles and make the costumes look like they were idiots (even though he says he respected the street-level heroes more than the Avenger-types). There were always such polarising perspectives on Frank depending on who was writing his appearances and imo Frank's one of those characters who's never had much consistency in his background. He's been all over the place, however, from what I've read the showrunners are mostly cribbing from Ennis' long run on The Punisher, so we're definitely going to be getting some flavour of that Frank on DD. Although Matt's never going to be okay with Frank killing, more than once Matt tends to preach to other heroes about Frank's personal code of honour and get them to at least understand Frank in some capacity instead of just dismissing him as a cold-killer villain, and I really have the feeling they're going to go that route on the show.

The one plus I can see from the DD showrunners cribbing from Ennis' take on The Punisher? In spite of this referenced Punisher comic with Frank teaching Matt a lesson, Ennis did appreciate Frank and Matt's complicated and messy relationship. He was the guy who wrote the What If about Frank killing the Marvel universe, after all, and that featured a Frank Castle with a childhood-established respectful friendship with Matt Murdock. Maybe a tiny bit of that will make it onto S2. I can hope.