I finished reading this and was like "wow, I really enjoyed this I wonder what the comments are like" and then I see that everyone thinks it's omega doodoo dog ass 😭
Maybe it's because I've read too much isekai, but I appreciate that the MC isn't dominating everyone at school and only acts rashly when he needs to. Not only does it make it all the more hype when he drops the disguise, but it also allows more time to develop the side characters. Very much appreciate that the MC is a citizen of this world rather than a towering, insurmountable god.
Speaking of which, I really appreciate the character development of everyone other than the MC, like seeing his family (which is something that literally never happens ever in isakai stories) and some classmates get more screen time than 1 mini-arc. I don't think the story would be nearly as interesting or the characters nearly as "fleshed out" if the MC went sicko mode and systematically solved every problem himself while wooing every one-dimensional girl in school (we have enough of those). I'm not a shipper and I didn't start reading this to goon, so I couldn't care less that the female characters are not romantically interested in the MC.
Somehow, I don't even hate the fact that the old Buato is still inside the MC, since it reminds you that people had a life before the "players" completely upended them (another thing that doesn't happen often in these kind of plots) and he doesn't overstay his welcome (he had like 3-5 minor appearances in the past 90 chapters). That said, I wish we had learned more about the other player's backstory and how they are affected by the merging. I think the only tidbit we know of is that the demon guy's "buato" is sleeping and the female player has some kind of complicated situation that keeps them from being able to grind levels. No more elaboration needed beyond that, I guess.
More on the downsides, I agree that the world right now is probably too big and ambitious. After 90 chapters, we still somehow don't know a SINGLE person from class C. There are so many guilds and factions both inside and out of the school that its hard to mentally keep track of them. I can barely even remember their names, dangit! This is a problem because any of them can affect the story at any time, even if the last time we heard of them was 30+ chapters ago.
And because of that (and other things), there are simply too many giant fires to put out. Apparently, the world is going to go into chaos at some point, then there's the classism system still going on, and then the PvP "grant any wish" candidate thing... guys, we need to pick a struggle. It's been 90 chapters, and only 2-3 months have canonically passed. Either there's going to be a dumb huge time skip, or it'll be 100 volumes before even one of these problems gets solved.
Finally, I completely get the sentiment that it's hard to understand the story if you didn't binge-read all the chapters at once like I did, but that's just the reality of having a story that spans past 90 chapters and 10 volumes. However, most things that have a story go on for this long have at least 1 recap... Some more recaps here and there would be very appreciated.
Overall, I still like what I've seen more than I don't. But I'm 99% sure this novel/manga won't end in a satisfying way. Definitely a 7 or an 8 for me as of chapter 90, as even with all these problems, it's still leagues better than most slop isakai. No idea why people are saying the writer should be fired and blacklisted from ever writing again 😭.
I think as time passes, this rating will go down but we shall see.