the response to the atlas complex (the series as a whole tbh) is what happens when the dark academia aesthetic takes the reading world by storm but 95% of the people who love it don't actually like academia or intellectual meandering of any kind.

i'm not sure when or where you saw the promise of this being like ? and action series? when it was always a moral and philosophical thought exercise but i'm glad it's over now and the book is sweeping out all the people who couldn't contribute meaningfully to an interesting conversation about the books in the first place