I will entertain the message and explain what exactly is wrong with ML in general, outside of starting with lazy interpretation of romcom tropes, shitty "plot relevant" lacrosse foreshadowing and finishing with story which doesn't respect or cares for its characters and only works in retrospect after a potential sequel which nobody knows if it will even come out at this point or not.
MLA is quite frankly a preaching story, not one to immerse you as an observer of the world, but the one to have an equivalent of your drunken uncle reading you life morals on how to live your life while he downs third bottle of whiskey with his alcoholic gut out. He thinks you are stupid, both intellectually and emotionally, that's why he constantly repeats the same thing over and over your head, while telling you great stories of his ww2 adventures of valor, riding on M4 Sherman, which are somewhat interesting and sometimes admirable, until he goes back to telling you that you are a dumbass brat who wastes his life. He goes in this circle for about 90 hours until he passes out, ultimately leaving you with nothing, but his moral code which he drilled into your brain so many times you can't count using all your fingers.
MLA doesn't respect its cast, because you quite literally end up where you started with only exception that everyone is happy and Main Loser gets extra girl to bang. Entire adventure is reduced to zero while it tries to trick you with false narrative that it's all worth it because it was all about "the friends we lost along the way on this journey". Shit of the fattest bull on the stick. Development? Gone. Impact? Reduced for shitty melancholic episodes for aforementioned dead sequel.
It's non-committal in everything outside its moral preaching and centrist political talks (which still manages to lean into that one ugly side thanks to nationalist Japanese writer), abuses nostalgia and hides its shallowness in mostly poorly directed spectacle with thoughtless direction in regards to any move. Every shitty vector animation it got could be changed to any random alternative and nothing would change, because there is no vision behind any of the movement outside of being, well, random, which fits the setting I guess.
I am still baffled by the words of one of the delusional fans unironically saying that Mahoyo, the fucking Mahoyo by type-moon as one of the visually beautifully done works, man, got worse production than shitty schwarzesmarken models which are slapped on screen and moved around like kid playing with their toy cars. Insane to the core.
It may have interesting moments untill you realise that those moments are lifted from something else. The whole orbital drop being a suicide mission from macross 7 is one hell of a realisation.
Anyway, I could be rambling about this for hours, but it is pointless and person behind this works is such an annoying sleazy twat that he counts as a personal enemy at this point.
Good for you if you like it, though. I simply grew out of it, because it never respected me or my time to begin with.