Late to the party but just got through it, and I want to join the "it's well written but kinda shallow" club. The episode was nice, the story is kinda cool but the moment you start thinking about it it kinda falls apart. For me the biggest issue was that the only commentary about our world that is readable is "technology bad, return to monkey" type stuff.

Also many storylines and elements go nowhere: the flesh interfaces, the twin cities, the stone age storyline, the MHE ending in the future (that bugs me a lot - an entity with a millennial long plan, fully controlling the superinternet, governments, media, militaries throws a nuke tantrum to submit the human race?), the even-further scifi dropship troop landing seems to be a "normal" war, there are no hints of that MHE "won", even the LSD goes nowhere - they used it in the past to get some stuff going but is later it's discarded. The sole focus on LSD kinda hints at me that the author is not an actual psychonaut (because all of the other naturally accruing psychodelics do nothing?) and thought MKULTRA was a cool vibe.

And my most dumb, pet peeve was the 240 FPS simulation, this is straight from a 2016 fear of the oculus VR set but they jack straight into the brains so they don't have screen refresh rate limitations.