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Look, you can have your opinion, but I really did not like how the episode was trying to make me feel pity over a fucking overused and single-minded Dalek, when they could have just left them well alone. ST:TNG’s I, Borg expressed the concept of a robotic enemy adapting to the side of good way way way better than any Dr Who episode could.
Most of the RTD era, while it had some standout episodes, were way too campy for my tastes (Love & Monsters, Fear Her, that fat blob episode, the incredibly shitty ending to the Master). Matt Smith’s first two seasons were peak Dr Who, and it’s a shame Moffat couldn’t figure out how to write stories like that after those seasons.
I see the sympathy for the Dalek style episodes more as tolerance paradox and highlighting paralles with the Doctor.
I find that daleks also suffer from the inverse ninja law, and generally the more daleks in an episode the less compelling and engaging they are.