I remember Clorox fans calling Kubo the worst names ever when Roydwach was getting negged by Yamamoto and when Yhwach was getting ping ponged by Ichibe.
Some were actually sold on the SK being the TYBW final villain.
Tbh look at what happened around that time;
Renji came back and solo’s Mask, who could mid diff two Captains
Rukia comes back and beats As Nodt
Kenny kills Gremmy, Soi Fon kills the robot
The Sternritter faction was being demolished then they randomly started turning on each other.
Seeing the antagonist of an already humiliated and seemingly beaten faction be trivialized by Ichibe definitely wasn’t great in the moment. It started to look like an OP arc with how little tension there was.