User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 527: Emotion, Review/@comment-24489996-20170318131937/@comment-24489996-20170318151218

But here's the problem Misk: everything he's adding doesn't fit in well!!!!

There were things that weren't needed (Irene being the mother of Dragon Slayers, The Zervis and Larcade incident, killing off half of the Spriggans because of how OP they are (I can find better uses for them tbh), Zeref's character degradation and many attempts of being labeled as a sympathetic villain, amongst many I can list, but tl;dr), and what irks me (basically the reason I'm ragging on him for the "recent made ups" he announced in the Q&A) is that he can do better but chooses not to and rush things. The fact that he constantly misleads his fans with all these blatant connections and false character deaths doesn't help either. One can't help but to cringe when he made that statement, given the current state of the manga.

I wouldn't mind if the manga itself was going in a good direction, but this isn't the case since it's just one screw-up, sexist/perverted scene, and wasted moment after another, which gets tiresome and causes people to drop the series entirely. So yeah, him apologizing and comparing himself to professionals is rather insulting, because many people would think otherwise when reading the series from the beginning all the way to its current point.

"Or the very least, better than having to rely on literal retcons."

Misk, just to add, that's what Hiro's doing now, as I've pointed out. He's retconning pretty much everything and anything, so long as it suits a certain part of the fanbase, even if it makes absolutely no sense in the long run.