1: Boy do they change the stakes fast. Makishima goes from a small-timer like his puppets, who enjoys orchestrating petty dramas for his own amusement to an ideologue who wants to tear down Sybil in a timespan that feels very abrupt. I would have personally liked to see the inspectors and enforcers grapple with someone like that when the stakes were still low enough that their feelings of animosity towards him and protectiveness towards each other weren't overshadowed in significance by the fate of society. I liked the lower stakes, they made it feel more personal.

2: I didn't like the two main characters that much. The Kogami protagonist as just a cookie cutter loose cannon cop, and for most of the series, Akane didn't really have much of agency, and sort of played the "female secondary protagonist" role, although she did come into her own at the end. I also feel like Kogami's revenge arc could have benefited from not obviously being the right thing to do anyways. Like, there's all this talk about him going down a dark path, and pursuing revenge over justice, but I think that a neutral person who bore Makishima no grudge would probably still try to kill him before he kills countless others? I liked the side characters well enough though.

3: I love how Sybil functions as an analogy for the state. Sybil's judgments are, basically, the unified will of a small ruling class. This will is then, by virtue of obscurantism and the mythologization of the process, reified as some sort of "objective" law, rather than simply the will of those with power. I wish Akane could have developed more though. Even at the end, she still believes in the inherent morality of "the law", even after seeing how artificial it is, and even after the murder of her friend brought home the cost of upholding it blindly. The rhetoric she uses to admonish Sybil in her final monologue is still based in the primacy of this monstrous system, and it makes me wonder if the authors still harbor that ideology even after deconstructing it.

4: I like how Makishima and his lackeys are portrayed as grandiose, self-important narcissists, as they really are, instead of the aesthetic hyperborean ubermenschen that they imagine themselves as. At the end, Makishima laments that this has led to a society where everyone is replaceable, and I couldn't help but think about how he took the life of Akane's friend, who was irreplaceable both to Akane and to herself. He's just too self-involved to see the humanity of the people whose lives he takes.

5: The show is gratuitous with female nudity, and whether that's motivated by fanservice, or by edginess, I don't really care. It's entirely unnecessary and uncomfortable.