Tried to ride the hype but was half disappointed, but the damn art and action kept me away from dropping this. Action is almost at good as mainstream shounen but that's it, nothing more. Characters are one dimensional, even though the author tried at the beginning it all went stagnant and repetitive. Basically he story is all about grinding so the repetitive aspect of the plot expected, but everything except the action was half baked. Characters that are introduced are being wasted and not fully explored, Mc is on par with Kirito (no actual personality and is every edgelord's wet dream), no actual character development. The story has no actual direction halfway through but it starts to build up after Mc Daddy was introduced and it was slowly becoming disappointing, classic save the world scenario was becoming more apparent, there was no actual threat to the Mc and no other factors that limits him basically the Superman effect.
In short, Solo leveling is just your basic crappy Op mc comic with some kick ass art but since its just season 1 I hope it gets even better but I expect it to go downhill from now.