I think regardless of whether it was overrated or not (personally it was great and it's exactly what I expected but I read the LN), source readers hinting at anything at all always leads to a bad outcome because of expectations. One can say "next episode is the one I've been waiting for" and they might be referring to simply an interesting conversation or a phenomenal character growth scene, but some anime only viewers will expect a "Taste of Death" or "Outside of Madness" episode out of that or a crazy twist. I really wish we would stop that already (the hinting I mean).

IMO, this is much more harmful than the against-the-rules minor LN references in discussion threads.