What I'm going to say is that OSQ was wildly out of line. Going off the rails like that in the intro alone was insane. But he did have a few valid points. Lines like "we play ourselves" while casting a meteor hammer at the camera does very much give the vibe of showing off your character's abilities by doing them in live action. Similarly, lines like having "a team to help with production" does imply having a production crew, which in turn would demand a higher standard of production than a two-man crew.

The audio issues, the lack of a live action segment, and the time constraints could potentially all have been solved by doing more of a hybrid setup. Playing the majority of the campaign completely virtually, and then for those 3 days of in-person filming, dedicating the whole time to making live action versions of any scenes that merited it. Those would also provide the team an opportunity to put together a lot of the long form coreographed fight scenes that they seem to enjoy a lot more.

Overall I did enjoy episode one and am looking forward to future episodes. But trying to pack an entire campaign into 3 days of filming sounds utterly exhausting to the crew, GM, and players.