I'm not interested in people who argue that yeah, it's kind of unsettling, but if you focus on that you're missing the point about how Katherina is the smartest person in the play, or anything along those lines. I want to know if anyone said nope, it's upsetting/not fun/morally repugnant and I prefer Shakespeare's other comedies.
George Bernard Shaw, in 1897, was unimpressed. He said that 'No man with any decency of feeling can sit it [Katherina's final speech] out in the company of a woman without being extremely ashamed of the lord-of-creation moral implied in the wager and the speech put into the woman's own mouth'. I picked this up from Ann Thompson's New Cambridge edition of the play, but she cites it as being in an article for the Saturday Review reprinted in a book called Shaw on Shakespeare in 1961.