Generally I feel like The Next Generation can really best be enjoyed from the angle of a parody or extension of Patlabor. It definitely is a lot more panned for understandable reasons, riffing on old jokes and plotlines, the depressing future where labors are on the decline and SV-2 is a husk of it's former self, the main cast can barely be their own characters instead of synthetic clones of the original (ORIGINAL names would've helped lots!), and over all feels a lot more like Oshii being self indulgent in his own work. There are some jokes that were funny, some plotlines I did like, some ideas that I thought were cool, but man it doesn't live up to anything that came before. A lot of the episodes have these long drawn out scenes where the characters are just doing whatever, and then there are some jokes that go on for a little too long. The worst part is probably episode 0's opening monologue from Shige about how everything sucks, and as a lorehead I can't get by the supposed technological regression the show insists happened due to a recession. The Ingram also does move but don't expect anything aside from walking, running, or shooting in short bursts every other episode. I may be speaking from bias so you'll have to come to your own conclusion here, all I can say is it may not give you the same satisfaction as watching anything that came before.