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Overall it feels like I was seeing a highlight reel of a much larger work than this actually is. It insists upon itself with no foundation built. What it feels like is somewhere very early on part-way through making volume 3 the mangaka got a call that went something like "hey by the way you're only getting 4 volumes lol" and decided to stop and tack on the ending they actually had planned for like at least 2 or maybe 3 or 4 more volumes down the line. the sense of scale is just ballooned at a rate disproportionate for even such a fantastical story.

I ... thought it was average to being for the most part, with the fairly pleasing art and my weakness to the dynamic held between finite and (at least seemingly) in-finite beings and the interesting ways it can be fleshed out. I don't think it did anything very interesting with that in the end though. I share the frustrations about basically everything after the Moderator in the last two volumes showed up. I think the steady "monster of the week" feel I felt the action of the first two chapter was building up to, while not anything special or spectacular, was at least pleasant to read. But everything after that specific moment in time in Vol 3 is just turned way up to 11 and everything happens at knee-jerk pacing. Even and especially character development. All the way up until the end of the 2nd volume we get the impression that the main character will change but perhaps very gradually, given that she doesn't say anything before leaving the island, betraying some un-dealt-with issues still at play emotionally. After this she apparently just has all these things solved to a point where she can focus on another person's issues. And the way the plot is resolved, with Horizon and Maelstrom just sucking everything into a ball and fucking off, they treat as this flash of inspiration that comes to them. When, at least to me, that seems like it would be plan A for these apparently higher-plane existences. Moderators evolution language is annoying. You don't have to try taking on real terms to fantastical things in a fictional story. Just have it be something fantastical, we all know its fiction, you can do these things. If you're really caught up on the things that may have inspired it, then its fine to bring them up as a metaphor for whats happening, with characters making the same connections to these phenomenon that you did. But evolution is literally something everyone, and I mean everyone, learns about in public high school. It isn't some esoteric high-minded science concept that only 120+ IQ ivy league grads will know intimately enough to have it break their suspension of disbelief.

Anyways the author won't see this and likely doesn't speak or read English so whatever.