Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3

After an amazing experience in season 2, everyone have high hopes on season 3, hoping it will be another banger.
Turns out, this is a horrible season - worse than the ONA aired on April or even season 1.
What went wrong?

In a nutshell:

1. Using up a lot of new character's time for old characters
-Before: New season, new characters
- Now: New season, old characters gets lots of screentime

... 2. Boring racing scenes
- (Apart from ep 12) Close up shots of girls trampling grass and keep yelling and shouting for minutes straight
- No memorable matches

3. Too frequent racings
- less time for character development
- There is no climax in the show

4. Lack of emotions
- The production team expected that you can save lots of emotion by just ONE episode - and release it out like
a flood through a race
-> Climax? No.

5. Time wasting on useless scenes
ex. Sakura Bakushin-O : Her only purpose is to interact with Kitason a bunch of times - without being any motivative source for Kitason

6.Wasting characters
Ex. Duramente: A perfect character to fit in the anime
-Gets screentime but no character development

7.Talking instead of action
- Actions are the best way to develop a character - and they chose not to, but instead talking for 12 ep straight
8.Confusing character developments (the worst)
Kitasan Black:
-Real life: Nicknamed " Tough guy"
-Anime: "Glassheart" - Keeps breaking down and have to get motivated every episode
ex. Within TWO minutes:
-Want to compete overseas
- Denied by the trainer
-Got sad and went out
- Motivated from two random guys on the street
- Cheered up
- Changes idea and will compete in Japan
->Totally time wasting and no character development and no emotions saved
- Amazed by how the production can turn a horse which is strong and got the most G1 trophies among all into
a girl who is stupid ,fragile and weak
Satono Diamond:
- Expected to get main screentime (rivalry with Kitasan irl)
- Reality: NPC with ONLY ONE EP for character development - and that ep was totally not passionate enough
New side characters:
- Have screentime but... simply no character development

Overall: A complete disaster which is not recommended to newcomers and even old fans. Seriously this is the only uma musume anime I dropped due to its boringness of the first few episodes- and I came back to watch if it gets improvements. The answer is clear no.