Lightnovel was okay-ish. RTS player gets isekaied as the commander of his favorite (evil) in-game faction and starts zerging in the fantasy world.

As far as high school romance go it’s in my top 3.

Yes, both manwha and light novel.

I would argue that those examples aren’t pointless. Just showing fight scene after fight scene without anything in between is pointless. Take your first spoiler as an example: that scene highlights his change in personality. The same goes for the second spoiler with added info about how abnormal his abilities are.

Then there is all the deliberating and thoughts he had in the secret dungeon. In the anime he enters, there is a montage, he fights some boss and he leaves all in the span of just a few minutes.

I worry a little that this will turn into an unnecessary love triangle / harem

There she is! Wridra is my absolute favorite character in the series. Can’t wait to see more of her animated. In general I really like the adaptation so far. The main selling point of the series is to feel the happiness of the mundane through someone else’s eyes and the animation and voice acting do a banger job delivering on this.

I really wish more shows could make the protag and their posse good without the need to lower the bar by making everyone else around them terrible pieces of shit.

Probably cliffhanger for season 3, just like shadow monarch was cliffhanger for season 2.

FYI: They’re skipping a lot here. I would highly recommend reading the source manhwa or even better the light novel based on the manhwa which added more details on top.

Where do you get that pedo part from? The girl seemed like a consenting adult.