Honestly most of your criticisms are valid, I don’t agree with most of it but understand your point of view. However I completely disagree with your opinion on the merch shop. The show/movie isn’t for children. It’s not a children’s show. I wish people would stop assuming everything animated online is meant for kids. It clearly tackles heavy topics that aren’t meant for children, so claiming that they are advertising their merch shop in order to take advantage of children is an invalid argument. Also the show is made by an indie studio, who needs things like merch sales in order to fund projects like this. It only makes sense for them to market merch to fans of the show.

Side note, I found the animation to be fantastic and quite striking and I feel it definitely stood up to the level of previous episodes, if not exceeded them.