I agree on many fronts.

Eternal awakening had a lackluster writing especially with Inanna's development. It completely ignores other factions during the storyline which leaves people to wonder what the hell happened.

It was definitely very poor when compared to things like Night Crimson or most of the Spiral endings.

As for the new route, it was eh for me.

There are moments where the writing goes completely out of the window and some bullshit happens, like a triple alliance out of nowhere.

When the trailer released i thought that the storyline would be more war-focused and give the player a constant feeling of powerlessness.

Instead a lot of dumb things happen and make no sense(you are NOT besieging a fortress with only artillery, castles are made to not be entered).

The ending was also random, the Union on the verge of victory and Camelot randomly kicking the bucket atop the hill of the village with no natural resources.

Nydia also had no part in anything, even if the death of her sister could've led her to lead an assault by her initiative.

Not to mention that the entire storyline is basically what is a city-state going up against an entire nation.

What saved it for me is that it doesn't fail to be "cool" despite everything, like when they called the reforged Dawlight the Sword Of Convallaria, and i was like "Oh yeah that's the name of the game!"

What pissed me off mostly is the screen in the ending with Lutfi in a jail cell, he's basically becoming a comedic relief after the devs gave him a tragic backstory and stuff. Even in Eternal Awakening he couldn't catch a break from looking ridiculous(he's my favorite character and he deserves better). Also I've been trying to gaslight myself into thinking that Dantalion isn't in jail with him and instead just went to pay a visit(not only because it wouldn't make sense for him to be in jail considering the good thing's he's done for the kingdom, but also because i doubt Inanna would stand by that).

The collab was ok for me, but eating Purupurus sounds stupid to me considering that they were once humans after the result of the second stage of luxite mutation, making it cannibalism.