Preliminarily, I was watching about 1 episode of S;G per year (it's not even a meme), but I ended up arranging with friends to watch the anime together. My first impression was not the best, however I understood that the 1st half of the anime was extremely important to explain the theory, not only that but after finishing the work I noticed that it was the best part of the anime.
Furthermore, when the anime “begins” for many is where I most questioned my reason for living. As I recall, they actually start to travel through time and in the course of that we have just one of the worst death directions I've ever seen in an anime, besides the piece trying to deliver some twists, which revolve around Suzuha and Moeka. In the long run, the Suzuha context is interesting and “well” worked, but with the exception of Moeka freaking out “rightly” in episode “x”, she simply played a poor part in the plot, I disliked the twist they proposed around her.
I have to mention some negative points that made me dislike the work, in a time travel anime I would very much like to see "time travel" itself and not just stay in theory or travel in the "present", Okabe is easily one of the worst scientists there is, because even having Kurisu on his side, our "MC" still has difficulty finding "simple" resolutions throughout the plot. Finally, Okabe's romance with Kurisu was taken out of “cool”.
Therefore, I found S;G extremely dull and tiring at times, as important as these moments are for the unfolding of the story, it could have been a shorter anime. Steins;Gate is an anime for cults or simply people who demanded a little more from their respective “IQ” to understand the anime and were in need of giving “10” for an extremely overrated work.
In summary, I have nothing to complain about the theory and some characters that served as comic relief, if I were to analyze some basic criteria for Steins; Gate would look something like this:
History: 7.0
Animation: 6.5
Entertainment: 3.5
Characters: 3.5
Sound: 0
Totaling 4.1 of overall grade.
The problem with the S;G hype is that no one has made a better Sci-Fi (I mean the whole work), which is not “very” difficult, I hope that in a few years, someone will do it and that we can laugh a lot when it happens. Again, even though it's not my favorite theory, Steins proposes a formidable theory and it's what carries the anime as it falls short on several factors.
