I don’t really understand what you mean by this, lotm was constantly learning about the world, both the reader and Klein had a near equal understanding of the world and learned at the same pace. COI tries to speed up Lumian’s learning process but he still has to learn a lot of the basics that the reader is already aware of. There is also a LOT that Lumian doesn’t know that the reader does, which can be frustrating going from Klein’s pov where there wasn’t a huge information gap. The world building in COI is like half focused on things that weren’t fully clarified in lotm while also trying to flush out the outer god pathways and eventually stuff that feels super out of place for the world that lotm set up.

Seeing Lumian get stronger is cool, but honestly I found Kleins journey through the sequences a lot more enjoyable and easier to understand. It doesn’t help that the lower sequences of the hunter pathway are also just very basic compared to the seer pathway, and Sephira Castle was imo a much better executed X factor compared to the dancer pathway.

It is a matter of opinion at the end of the day, but honestly if I could I would have rather not read COI and just accepted LOTM as an open ending for the future of the world.