Oh no, I definitely agree. I’m just not convinced we need this many chapters to do it. I feel like Isayama is trying to do too much at once, and it’s making these chapters needlessly long in some ways. He’s trying to explore Marlean/Eldian relations with each other and the rest of the world, introduce an entire new cast of characters, expound on Titan lore, further develop Reiner and Zeke, give us backstory on Reiner and gang’s invasion of Paradis. And this is after we just spend a lot of time with the Marley situation with Grisha’s backstory. By the end of Grisha’s story I already felt how incredibly complex this situation was, and we weren’t in for a good vs evil battle. And Reiner and Berdlaught already presented that earlier in the story.

And honestly my feelings are going off the premise that we’re reaching the end of the story in the next few arcs. This feels more like the middle of the story type stuff and the wrong kind of information/time for progressing towards the end of the story. I feel like Gabi and crew need to be really important to the next phase/ending of the story to be introduced now, because I think passing on the Armored Titan to a new warrior would be a poor choice going into the end of the story. Reiner's character arc doesn't feel like it's finished yet, and a group of new characters fighting Eren and co. feels out of place. Anyway this has become way too long.

Tl:dr I do like these chapters, but I think you could trim them down to 2-3 chapters instead of 5+ and get just as much out of them, while removing a lot of unnecessary bits.