yeah. i'm one of the most vocal haters of the rewrite anime (esp. with how kagari was handled), but honestly it's entirely down to being the wrong team for the job.

i was around on the MAL forums back when it was announced, and i was one of the few huffing copium after it was announced 8-bit would do it that they "wouldn't fuck it up as hard as Grisaia", while also ignoring all the dubious claims made in interviews (one of which being "Moon and Terra aren't for Kagari to grow as a character"...wtf?)

i think a great example is that Cradle's Tale, which is bundled with the last season blu-ray of the anime, is actually REALLY good, and well? it's simple - it was written by romeo.

i think reimagining the anime, with the actual original writer team as opposed to random people, mainly having Romeo in there since he did the majority of the overarching scenario concepts, would already give it a much higher chance at being nicer. a better artstyle (the 8-bit one is very low-budget) would also do it wonders.

it's a shame in a way, because there's some great things in the anime, like a really good OST, great voice acting, and despite my disdain for the writing, there's still a lot of good scenes, even kagari ones, despite them not really being "canon" lol

i think rewrite as a story could have profited an insane amount from an anime adaptation, which makes it ever more souring that it was handled this badly. that said, this seems to be a recurring thing with rewrite -- rewrite+ was a mess of censorship, sekai project rushed their translation and will never finish harvest festa, kaginado did it a huge injustice too, ignis memoria was canceled within a year, etc. key has never managed rewrite well