@Jackone
All critics and all reviews come down to personal preference there is no such thing as a objective review.
So why are you guys complaining about wuxia having high ratings? Its their opinion. Having a bigger market also meant that LOTS OF PEOPLE have the same opinion. If you really hate it that much, go make a ton of accounts and hammer that 1 star rating button or something. Also while objective reviews are generally impossible to do, it is at least attemptable by ignoring lots of personal bias such as saying that this has an "interesting art style". Seriously? What even is an interesting art style? Maybe if someone does a manga entirely in Mozaic or something.
One way to rate things "objectively" is to rate this according to the ratings of other vengeance-like stories like the sage lich, Arifureta. (Both of which lost the vengeance plot real quick) or even Tales of Berseria. At least that way you would be comparing apples to apples. Imagine if someone said chocolate sucks because its not sour enough.
Also I never called this lifeless (lacking excitement). I said the plot is paper thin. In this 28 chapters, we went through at least 4 arcs of the exact same thing with no character development or anything whatsoever. All the "not victims" seem to be equally evil and moronic while those that aren't are victims. Its like reading four identical one shot manga. There is nothing in this manga except vengeance which is already becoming too repetitive after four arcs.
Then there is this.
sticks to core principles like crazy hero crazy villains and that doesn’t change
You do realize that this ISN'T a compliment to this story right? You have a crazy hero that never change, an unending supply or crazy villains, and NOTHING CHANGES (bland, monotonous, uninteresting)? I never called this lifeless but you certainly did.