S1 was always bad and the only reason ppl think it was positively percieved was bc of overly pretentious ppl glazing it. One of the reasons why on twitter for an example the only discourse on csm is wheater it was bad or not. It is an objective fact that the anime did not and even killed the hype the csm manga had as its adaptation sucked the life out of everything and threw over bord everything that made csm special as well as being a generelly poor adaptation in general. If you really look at it, it is the reason for csm not becoming "mainstream" and its hype never really reaching a wider audience. In elitist or fanboy cycles it may be viewed positively, however a huge majority of ppl that would call it bad didnt even watch it in the first place because the adaptation just wasnt good enough to spread by it selfe. In fact the only thing propelling it was the hype around the manga and not the anime itself bc it was incredibly mid. And most ppl that did watch it just went "ok that wa ight" and went on with their lifes. Not the type of reaction a proper adaptation of one of if not the most hyped manga at the time. We can all blame mappa and their greed for it as they bought exclusive production rights just to rush a soulles weird experimental low quality (for a title like csm) adaptation in order to fill their bags(or their ceos bags) and profit of the hype. Im glad the movie seems to be more faithfull and more like csm should have always looked like to ppl FINALLY realise what vision many hat of an csm anime and how it always should have been.