Those who say that they were underwhelmed by the manga didn’t read it when it was coming out, where a drip feed of chapters saw the manga warp week by week.
As a reference, imagine if Komi Can’t Communicate suddenly had an arc where a bunch of guys were harassing the main girls at the beach, but it goes on for like 10+ chapters and just stretches things out.
Not everything has to be audacious in order to be bad.