Why do people feel Season 2 was a Massive shift in stakes and lore, When that statement is just ignorance?
Now I don't want to come of mean but how?, I understand that it felt suddenly deviating and out of pocket but that's what happens with world building. The whole essence of Season 2 was showing that there's more to the world outside of Sixth Street and the classic Shenanigans, even then Season 1 wasn't exactly down to earth the second Miyabi got introduced and we saw her fighting Nineveh.
Void hunters Can be classified as literal super powered humans with abilities to destroy on a scale beyond what should be ideally humanly possible, we know this because the teaser in 1.0 specifically touched on the first Void hunters and they're deeds. Joyous exploring the Divine maze that even today with all the Carrot data and tech hasn't still been successfully replicated. Sunbringer killing a literal Airborne Hollow completely and building an Airspace in its stead. Swordmaster killing The Overseer who looked like a Doomsday version of The dead end But her. Remielle, Beliora and Falkenhayn Pushing the literal dark wall back 37km and Arche finding the properties of Hollows and they're characteristics.
People will hear this and think ohhhhh that's down to earth. The criticism feels more like a deliberate ignorance and lack of attention to detail than a valid complaint, we knew about the Hollows, knew what they did with the fall of the old capital and what happened to people like trigger, knew about the sacrifice experiments, knew about The wars between the defense force and some other species like Oni.
I understand if someone feels disoriented by the scale season two jumped too but that was because the proxies moved higher up the ladder, they had more threats to face and as we've seen in season three and season twos closing bigger lore and more dangerous opponents and situations. This is all just standard progression.
The criticism is just ingenious because the scale stopped being normal as soon as Void hunters where introduced, if you're fine with Miyabi ( someone who can defeat an extremely powerful multiple cores Ethereal in two and a half minutes and split A hollow with a slash) then the complaint fails to make sense as most people are like "but Miyabi was down to earth" no she wasn't.