It's literally stated in the tags to be a 'crack treated seriously' fic, this is literally what was promised from the day one.
A crack-fic premise (with the few fandom-specific plot tropes) that was never supposed to treat itself very seriously (cue, for example, how Midoriya seems to bouncing through issues at least until Overhaul arrives properly and the endgame starts to mostly deconstruct those elements).
In fact, you clearly made the review without reading the full thing, as you'd then know that not only tonnes of heroes are straight up massacred during the ISP suppression operation by Overhaul, but also that the ending involves villains arguably winning XD Deku Sue, sure.
You're literally doing the equivalent of complaining about comedy film involving comedy (and without reading the whole thing, clearly enough) and it's morbidly hilarious to read.
In your review, you outright admitted to not reading the full thing. While it is fine to drop a story you\'re not enjoying, if you HAD read the full thing, you would have known that several points in your review was wrong.
There are a couple of rebuttals trying to argue that since I didn\'t finish it, I thus \'don\'t get it\' and that it gets good later. This misses the point - I shouldn\'t have to read 60k+ words just to get to a point where it isn\'t a flat, boring retread of what a thousand other fics have done better. You don\'t have to spend the first hour of Duck Soup or Airplane! to get to the comedy, and you don\'t have to watch the first hour of The Matrix or Die Hard to get to the action and struggle.
Either I\'m taking it too seriously when it\'s supposedly a comedy, or I\'m not taking it seriously enough because it gets really dark towards the end. Pick one, guys.
Angry queer dude. Ze/zer, they/them, or xe/xyr/xem pronouns.
As someone who had people trying to argue that after giving Hellsing Ultimate Abridged three episodes to start being good I hadn't seen enough (when apparently even the creators agree it doesn't start being good until at least one episode after I stopped and whose fans didn't even engage with my main point of Alucard being absolutely insufferable and the biggest problem with the show, to say nothing of probably not even agreeing with them about it being better later given some stuff I read on the TV Tropes pages here), I have nothing but sympathy. I've liked things that get better later, and I even love slow-burn pacing, but I struggle to like things that are bad to start with but might eventually get better.
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Meh
This starts out okay, even if it's melodramatic as all hell and about 90% Fandom-Specific Plot tropes (Inko being a retired villain, Deku being an absolutely insane level quirk analyst, quirk discrimination in the flavor and depth of X-Men, villain rehab class etc.) by weight. That's not necessarily bad, and a fic that can handle that well and in an interesting way has a lot of potential. Unfortunately, this gets boring fast. For one, despite all the changes, the Stations of the Canon are not diverged from one bit. For example, in the battle trial, Inasa replaces Bakugou. But the battle that ensues is the same as canon, down to Midoriya using All for One and Inasa's blast to blow up the fifth floor so that Ochako can do the same 'special move' as canon. At least the battle in canon gives Izuku some character development. Which is a nice segue into the other major problem, that it becomes less a plot and more riding Deku's dick. He can do no wrong, teachers treat him like a professional hero from literally day one, he's crazy powerful due to training off screen, he rescued Eri off screen two years before the fic begins, etc. (His only 'flaw' so far is that he doesn't believe in how amazing he is- not even his canon naivete, recklessness, or social anxiety) I ended up giving up after the sports festival arc because it was just too annoying and, frankly, boring as all fuck. There was a ton that could have been done with this, but instead all we get is Deku Sue's Adventures in Beating Up Cartoon Villains.