Oh, wait, lol.
Anyway... (
) if it's the production team's decision to split the story into different media to make the flow of the story in the anime series go smoothly, then let them do so. It might not be the best decision, but it sometimes cannot be helped. We can't say that a series is bad as a standalone series if it was never designed by the production team as one. (By analogy, you can't say that a single filter can work as good as a complete filtration machine.)
Oh, and you can't disregard those "excuses" (i.e. cour constraints) because sometimes, it dictates budget allocation and scheduling times [the same reason why BRS in Noitamina got eight episodes just to fit that darned Thermae Romae]. The best story can be crippled by the production team, and there's nothing that the writers of the story can do about it but to play by the rules.