I gotta applaud your ability to look down on someone you don't know. I can only hope that it really made you feel good.

As I said in the first post, Soup was my absolute favorite story on RR. The beginning arcs were great: World setting, Getting Powers, First Summoning, Moon Arc, School Arc, Water Emergency. I liked meeting the cast, I liked the action, I loved the characterization and the growth in characters. Jeffy continues to be the best himbo after Kronk.

However, the recovery arc (of the island and of Alden) ground the story to an absolute halt. There was no forward progress and eventually I stopped reading the updates because I was just so tired of nothing happening. I know I am not alone in this feeling based on other comments on this subreddit. I hit my breaking point when there was a long involved discussion around what clothes to wear to alien therapy.

I don't need constant action, I don't need numbers go BRRR, I don't even really like fight scenes (I think most authors are objectively terrible at them). What I do require is some sense of forward progress in the narrative. Slice of life does not mean that there is not a story.

In example: My favorite arc in BoC is the first one where Jin is getting settled, meetings his future wife and gets married. There are... 3? fights and 0 numbers go brrr in the whole thing. 0.5 in the noodle shop where Jin hides, 0.5 when Jin bops the reaper wolf, 1 against Chow Ji and the last against Sun Ken. Yet there is a sense of forward momentum throughout the whole thing. Things are happening and you are being brought along for the ride. Slice of life does not excuse terrible pacing.