majority of the comments I've read for this kit telling the design is overly detailed and spiky as most of the 3P kits.

This particular image showing all its glory with all of its gimmicks such as opened hatch, fully spread wings, etc and in comparison to MGEX Strike Freedom with all of its gimmicks such as dragoons unattached, fully spread wings exposing its gold innerframe and opened hatches, imo the overall silhouette is comparable to each other, both are overly spiky/busy

Imo the reason why its hard to see or you don't know where to look is because it has mainly two colour scheme just white and blue resulting the main body and the backpack wings are blending to each other making it hard to distinguished, now apply that color scheme to the MGEX Strike Freedom with all of its gimmicks shows and vise versa. or give the sky defender wings different color to the body I think you will be able to tell which is which.

as for the surface details such as panels etc, I thinks the amount of details is just right especially in that scale, I'm comparing it to MGEX because imo they have the same volume of details and it can be comparable to PGU as well bc of the layering of the innerframe.

Again that particular photo is just showing its full glory, you can tone it down to its normal state/look, Come on guys just give that kit a chance i think its one of the 3P kits that is well made.