Unfortunately the Akatsuki shaped elephant in the room made it really hard for me to continue enjoying enstars as it was. I mostly feel it was very intentionally spiteful to long time fans and disrespectful to Ibuki's established identity. I'm not as well-versed in the history as I'd like to be, but I found adding him to Akatsuki as an Okinawan/American character really disrespectful considering the history and ongoing struggles for ryukyuuan peoples to be recognized.

That aside, I just generally didn't like the vibe of the stories after a point. I'm a Valkyrie oshi and IMO after the climax event Raison d'être , they're retreading a lot of the same ground now arcwise without much progress. Which isn't bad but it's not what I'm looking for. As for the other units I supported like Eden, kurebi, switch, and esupuri, I felt like the continuous additions to the ensemble stars universe in terms of world building and the background radiation of eichis globalization of ES created a lot of dissonance between some self contained unit arcs and what was actually going on business/politics wise. I know for ryuseitai and fine the dissonance was probably worse because of their direct involvement with the expansion into Okinawa.