Yeah, I actually preferred MP100 when it was subverting shounen tropes more. That we get an actual serious "us versus the bad guys" arc is kind of a let down. I kept waiting for the reveal that their plan was fundamentally flawed and unrealistic, like how Regien dissected the claws in season one. But here, it was out and out presented as a traditional shounen battle with everything on the line... and it kind of paled in comparison to other shows which spend their entire run time actually vesting the viewers in the machinations of world domination/salvation, ect... not deconstructing them. Here, it felt kind of like a fever dream of things that wouldn't happen in this world, but that's just my take.