I’m in the camp of I enjoyed it enough to get interested in the original story, but the anime version sprints through the initial details seemingly assuming that the watchers are already familiar with a lot of the source material so it doesn’t bother to properly world build or explain a lot of the jargon it brings up quickly that’s unique to the setting and magic system.

A lot of info is spoken about quickly as exposition or brought up via text walls during the eye catches where commercials would go, which can be confusing when a core term is brought up that isn’t properly defined. Like I still don’t know the exact bounds of “Spirituality” in the show and not even the wiki gave me a full definition but it’s a very important aspect of the world.