@BigIron69
"Do you guys actually like this sort of thing? Where the entire story is humans eat each other in the apocalypse, oh but there's video game mechanics that space alien streamers enjoy watching for some reason and our main character knows everything about the setting thereby defeating all tension because he magics a solution out of thin air that he knew the entire time."
Yes, we do. The setting and plot are completely original. And in further chapters takes its originality to a whole other level. And the tension is still there, you'd know this if you actually read the novel instead of bitching in early chapters. Hell, ask for spoilers if it bothers you this much
"Back in the day people generally had to build a world/premise from the ground up and have the hero slowly learn from innocence, sometimes winning, mostly failing and learning from their mistakes."
The MC does fail, and he falls HARD. The things he does, using knowledge from the novel, creates new difficulties he had never expected. Again, when he fails he fails hard. I'm talking getting his body fucked up and yeeted into another existence away from his friend's type fail. He constantly gets screwed over by beings in power because he's too weak to do anything. Knowing future events doesn't mean you are OP. Yes, it gives an advantage but it doesn't mean jack when people and beings stronger than you now want you dead. He learns this the hard way. The only world-building that isn't original is the authors use of Seoul, Korea. Beyond that most of the places, the MC goes to ARE built from the ground up.
"We've kind of lost patience for that, haven't we?"
Only one who lost patience is you, my guy. Just read the novel. Just by making this comment we already know you don't know what you're talking about.
"And skipped straight to the instant gratification of following an OP generic male lead who has nothing left to learn because he is familiar with every aspect of the "system"."
Boom, proof right there you don't know what you are talking about. Just leave dude. This is embarrassing.
Someone reply to me with instructions on how to use a spoiler tag.