This wasn't really an improvement but probably more of the same except for the climax
So I got 4 episodes into this season and got so irritated by the side school characters that I just plainly skipped until there were just parts of Elias and Chise, because that's just how annoying those characters were to me.
How the entire chapter came off to me was just too filler like and uninteresting to the point where I really wish they'd drop the school slice of life stuff as it got to me that much, that the first season was that much of a masterpiece and then we got such boring and annoying characters to have to sit through and their issues which made me care less.
If this anime drops the school stuff and the characters from it and return to the original cast which actually have synergy and cohesion together which makes for the entertaining first season we got then it will do well, chances are low of that from the blonde girl we saw acting behind the scenes. So hopefully the sooner we get back to content with just Elias, Chise, Ruth and Silky the better.
Tldr
The show fell from grace from its second season and this season apart from the last 4 episodes also tanked.
Needs to lose the school and characters to return to being something remotely entertaining.