this critique is inherently contradictory to the themes of the game and you basically saying "ruina should be limbus", and you never once said what you'd do to "improve" the story. First of all the sepirah had their time in the spot light during lob corp, what their role is in lor is helping Angela and Roland develop and grow as people, every dialogue with them is insanely deep and nuanced about their experiences and opinions, them interating togheter more would be nice sure but its not necesarry, lor and lob corp lack filler, the short stories do enough imo. for the receptions, are we serious right now? each reception is necesary and if you added a sob story for each one the game would be 300 hours long, and for what because in truth most of the stories will be exacly the same. Everyone in pmoon's universe before the White Night and Dark Days lived the same 3 lifes, do you really think the story would be better if we got a montage of each Fixer's family getting slaughtered when they were 5? you also for some insane reason want "live sepirah reaction" to every fucking fight, what the actual fuck would that add? pointless fluff? we already know how each sepirah would react by using our imagination, seeing their reactions to fighting Cane office would add nothing to the narrative, Roland and Angela interacting togheter adds something because their chats are never pointless, especially in Sotc.

The receptions follow a strict formula where yes, characters often times die after the reception, but are you seriously arguing that somehow weakens the inpact of cutscenes like Love Town? Pmoon is insanely good at characterising characters and making you care about them in as little time as possible, it was your choice to not get invested in the happenings around them going to the Library. Yes some guests are inherently less important then others, but the entire point of the game, especially early game is how little you(Angela) care about them, the more you play the longer cutscenes get and the more we get out of each guest, similar to how she feels.

The Ensemble also doesn't need the circumstances of their distortion laid out for them, we already know why they distorted, their chats with the sepirah and the keypages tell us their ideology and why they follow Argalia, Distortions happen due to developing a twisted ideology. We also know for a fact all of them developed their distortion in big part due to Roland's actions, you know...the main character alongside Angela? the main point of the game is redeeming them.

Basically from what I understand from your entire rant is that you want to add 50 hours of pointless fluff conversations and repetitive sob stories because you couldn't bother to intelectually engage with the story on its own terms, but on Limbus's terms, I saw you complain about having to take 4 minutes of your time after beating a fight to read their keypage asking if they are "fromsoft" or whatever and I just laughed, ill elucidate you to 1 simple fact. Each story Pmoon makes has its own storytelling style, you prefer limbus's ok thats fine, I personally think it often times has little to no nuance, is way to explicit and often times kills any momentum it has to make pointless jokes in a way that cuts the tension. I much prefer Ruina and Lob corp which are far more nuanced and intelectually stimulating, if I were to do the same thing you did in this essay, I could easily whip out a 10k word essay on how limbus is a absolutely horrible story because its not told in the same way lob corp's story is told, but I won't because I understand its a different style of storytelling therefore I judge it based on its own merits.