Eh, I've seen nearly all the Gundam shows 79 onwards, me and Sytha liked the end result.
The Journey so to speak was the issue as the first half of the 2nd season was rather pointless. Lot of good individual moments, but the connecting pieces just weren't as strong and so it does come off as a trainwreck for the most part, but the what we got at the end of the political maneuvering was good.
Not sure how much you've seen in terms of Gundam series, but even with all of my grips with the pacing and how they handled certain political actions, it's still a mid tier series for me.
Seed Destiny, Turn A, ZZ, CCA, AGE, what I've seen of Reco G are all worse. This was in the same tier as 00/Wing of having a lot of good, but enough glaring flaws to stop it from being in that top tier.
LTM absolutely DO NOT CLICK THIS SPOILER, go marathon it and then come back to this
My problem with the ending wasn't because it was kill em all Tomino. It was the whole McG plan being dumb. His grand plan was to dig up a 1000 year old Gundam and have everyone follow him because he could pilot it. This at a surface level is a great idea, if the Gundam was some legendary godlike machine with nanomachine regeneration, funnels, mobile armor control/docking. But Gundam Bael was literally just a piece of garbage with two adamantium swords. The people opposing McG, including those old guys he took hostage to try to turn into backing him, laughed at his plan.
Tekkadan following McG due to honor and trying to cash in asap would have logically been sound, like that's a great idea to align with a guy that can pilot the legendary godlike Gundam that ended the Calamity War. Except you realize immediately that the final Gundam on par with Barbatos was just a piece of old tech that McG couldn't even use to full potential. So everyone dies as a result, not because of some tragic event, but because McG is a dumb piece of shit.
I have watched every Gundam show with the exception of those SEED/Destiny movies and extra OVAs. I gave IBO a 8/10 because the first half of S1 was great, and there was a battle in S2 that was drop dead gorgeous animation that should be in a fucking animation museum. ---