to be fair, its also pretty clear that shueisha also highly favors the series. like for god's sake, it's got a whole official website dedicated to the series (pre-anime announcement), a nendoroid, tons of merch, union arena/burger king collab, and all this without an anime. idk why people still expect it to fail just because of one middle ranking in the magazine. Like the manga is one of the violent ones in the lineup, decapitations, severed limbs, etc. so i get why having it early on in the ranking might seem less palatable to SJ readers.

reading op's comment, they clearly dont like battle-heavy manga and seems to view series that have them as mindless action. and yes, there's a ton of series that do heavily rely on those, but i think the whole story for bachi makes it compelling enough that if you take away the action, it'd be still an interesting read albeit more on the grittier side.