The best critiques I've seen don't discard evolutionary theory as a whole but do point out that a lot of evolutionary psychology theories are just flimsy excuses to make modern norms okay.
My favorite example of this is just a casual observance someone made on another site I like about the theory of men needing to spread their seed:
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The thing is - if you accept the argument that men are biologically programmed to spread their seed as much as possible you also have to accept the argument that women are biologically programmed to seek out the most genetically advantageous sperm possible.
Since there will almost always be some dude who has a genetic advantage over the woman's current partner, then you have to accept that women have just as much of a biological imperative to cheat as dudes do.
In fact, since men can ejaculate many times in a day and keep doing so into their 90s but women can only have a limited number of children, there is actually more incentive for women to cheat then for men because every time they choose the "weaker" sperm provider they are taking themselves out of the genetic competition for nine to 12 months on what is already a more limited fertility time line then the one men have.
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You probably won't see this as particularly controversial or surprising, but a TON of people out there cite "evolutionary psychology" as the reason men want to sleep around a ton and women just want monogamy. It's not true. And of course, genetic evidence has shown that our species grew stronger because of "promiscuous" women, and that in some ancient cultures as many as 1 out of 4 children were being raised by a man who was not actually their father.
So I believe in evolutionary psychology, but I try to avoid misapplications of it and not blindly accept everything I read.