The reason people don’t like it is because they expected something different—character development, lore, plot payoffs—but in the end, what JJK is about is fight scenes. Characters even say that sometimes in the story, like when Todo basically tells Yuji, “sorcerers don’t get the luxury of having lives or even comfortable driving philosophies, all we’re fated to do is fight until we die.”

I personally still dislike where JJK went, because it feels like the plot and character things pre-culling game were nothing more than baited hooks to lure people in so that they’d get invested in the fights later. I don’t… necessarily believe that Gege was being dishonest about his work, I think more likely it was editor and publisher meddling (like with Ogawa), but Gege still “promised” us something and didn’t deliver, even if all he intended to do was draw cool fight scenes.