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We were hearing everything from "he's too old" to "he's got dementia" for months. The debate was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Biden was trending at -5 before the debate.
"We're not going back" was her campaign slogan and there were people chanting it right up until election day.
I think they started backing off on the "weird" thing after the Trump/Harris debate. Trump gave the much-remembered "They're eating the dogs!" line, which itself would have been a campaign-ender for literally any other human being, and everybody started trying to use that against him. Which makes sense. Why stick to something like "weird" when your opponent is giving you such juicy ammo to use against them? I'd have done the same thing, and I think so would anybody else.
The problem is it didn't work. Voters heard that and said "Yes, I'd like to have more of that."
There is never a situation where a candidate is going to say that an incumbent member of their own party is doing a bad job. That's just an unrealistic expectation to have. She would have been playing right into Trump's hands, who would have used that to make the last few months of Biden's presidency even more difficult and miserable. The most you could have expected is something along the lines of "We disagree on the finer points of some things......". But you are never going to hear a candidate basically shit on the leader of their own party like that.
And remember that she was Vice President. Go back and watch Trump during the campaign. When Biden dropped out, Trump essentially just swapped out Biden's name for Harris and continued on with his campaign, acting as if Harris had been President for the past four years. He convinced a whole bunch of those undecideds that the "Harris Administration" was the source of all their problems, even though the VP has little role in day to day administration. To these undecideds, the "Biden Administration" and the "Harris Administration" were one and the same, and her saying that Biden did a bad job would be like saying she did a bad job. Trump would have been beating her over the head with that up and down the campaign trail. She would have sabotaged her own campaign and basically taken a shit on the last 3 months of Biden's presidency in the process.