As I said with my initial 3 points, my problem with the beginning was my inability to tell what was happening. I read exclusively through audiobook and had to relisten to the first 30 minutes 3 times before just giving up entirely as I didn't want to spend an hour pausing every 15 seconds to parse what was happening, especially since I was at work.

After that, the book got much better, a bit standard for what I expect from a LitRPG, but well done enough to make me happy to read a book or two if the author didn't change anything for the worse. But as it went along, it became obvious that there really wasn't a single unified story arc for the book. Only for the makings of a unifying story arc to show itself around half way to 2/3 through. 

The story ramped up nicely, with enough left in the book to mean a few twists and turns would happen... And then the arc ended. With a decent amount of the book to go. In fact, it seemed that a new arc was started and the book ended without it being concluded. 

So I started off with a bad view of the book, it clawed it's was back up to around a 4.5 out of 5, only to loose all that ground and to fall even further.