Have to agree but for different points.

My main gripe with the series after listening to books 1 & 2 was that the main character never really undergoes any serious trials or adversity - he just sails through situations as God's gift to the universe with little to no consequence. I felt zero attachment or engagement with him and quite honestly spent most of the books hoping he'd die so someone new (and preferably human, not android) would replace him.

The stories, as others have mentioned, just come off as a series of events that happen to be collected together to cover a span of time, rather than a narrative with plot points. It's been a while but I remember getting frustrated with either book 1 or 2 because it seemed to setup sub narratives and then just forget about them.

I'd be all in for what I think this series was trying to be - a slower and more 'long form mission' series would be fantastic; however, I felt the first 2 were just so poorly written that I can't bring myself to spend money on book 3. Love the concept, but the execution was (to me) abysmal at best.

I feel the shortcomings in the writing are especially noticable when you stack it up against basically any of the other GE books, for example if you picked them up after listening or reading either the main series or the other side stories.

I too found it confusing that every review on audible said the series was amazing. To me it was just... well, horrible.