EXA is pretty much the greatest thing ever.
It's "rushed" because it doesn't delay the Festival arc with comedy material to a completely different anime.
It has less characters because the writers realized trying to focus on too many characters is exactly what made the anime a cluttered mess.
It's not perfect, but it's superior to the anime's writing in every conceivable way. To say otherwise just means you have your nostalgia goggles glued to your head. It's what the entire TV show should have been if they really wanted to go the grimdark route.
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