The way this books I written is just bugging me. There are spots where concepts or phrases are repeated in just a slightly altered way. Nobody feels real or tangible in any way... And the beginning was just so much more intriguing than anything else has been and the plot has completely lost any intrigue for me at 20% of the way in. All this I could push through...

What I cannot push through is that the writing is done to prove that the author thought of sci-fi things. So many sentences are a humble of made up things with no context clues. Tangents are gone into just to name fake organizations and their history or to wake on about made up concepts that appear so far to have no plot tie in. There are so many tangents you could never remember which ones matter once they do/if they do tie in. It feels a lot like Axioms end in the "see, my world is made up of things, I thought about stuff." This could all work if it was written in an emersive way.... But instead of feeling like world building it just feels like info dumps all the time with no point emotionally, thematically, or plot wise. It drags the whole thing and muddies up what there is of a plot so much I cannot enjoy it when we get to it.