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firstly, the original b-tier studio that made s1 was fired for approximately no reason, and replaced with even lower tier studio of interns. This, and the drama surrounding it, is also reflected in how certain parts of s2 that reference or call back to s1 are handled, that is to say poorly.
secondly, instead of being a friendly story like s1, s2 had very mean protagonists and situations. Friends get bullied, beat up, it's sad and antithesis to the healing of s1.
thirdly, the overall structure and pacing sucks dick. In s1, main character starts off thinking she's weak, spends half the series going to the Library where she can figure out who she is, and the second half the series learning that she's actually smart and stronger than she thought, and by the end did everything she thought she can't do, and is leaving the island for more adventures and more discovery of the mystery she found out while figuring out who she is. In s2, the MC's hero's journey (if you can even call it that) ends by episode three or so when he learns he's a human visitor, so most of the season after that is just going from place to place just so plot can conveniently happen, except it doesn't even happen since most of the "overarching plot" is squeezed into the final three episodes because the intern-ran studio has no director, no direction, and relies on "problem of the week" tier storytelling to carry them through.

The manga fixes all those points, but the only translation i can find is sadly still unfinished. And i haven't looked for raws because i don't know japanese. Overall it's a shame it's been handled so poorly but it's been a long enough time that i'm not actively angry over it, just passively resentful.