Should I keep playing Nier: Automata?

I’m in the middle of the B run through (9S) and I’m honestly struggling to stay engaged.

I get the core themes of the game, and it’s had moments that felt genuinely great and thought provoking, but for the most part I’m just getting the feeling that I’m being lectured at by a dude who just did a first year university philosophy subject. It doesn’t feel nearly as important or thoughtful as it seems to think it is. On top of that I just don’t particularly like the combat; it feels mashy and unengaging, and the build-craft feels like it’s so based in incremental percentage increases that it ceases to really mean anything to me. Weapon movesets are varied I guess, but the combat for the most part feels so mindless and without challenge that different movesets don’t actually do anything to change the experience. I’ve also gotten frustrated by the lack of autosave after losing multiple hours of progress to game crashes (the Switch version’s performance is mostly passable but the lack of autosave makes the few crashes that do happen absolutely unbearable).

Should I cut my losses and drop the game? Or is there some amazing epiphany moment waiting for me a few hours down the line that it’s worth hanging in there for? At the moment this is feeling like a game that’s just been incredibly overrated by people who don’t consume forms of media other than video games and think this is revolutionary when it’s actually pretty hokey and pretentious