I mean, the arc has a lot of problems for sure, and could literally be changed into a light novel without losing too much. Togashi's having trouble with show don't tell recently. Still, I think it'd be an exaggeration to even call it a bad arc so far. https://twitter.com/PrillyaCHUNGUS/status/1319098008059994117

The best in the series? No. Even good? Maybe, we'll see how it'll pan out. But there are a lot of arcs that are absolute garbage throughout the medium, this one's just kinda there for me right now. I've entirely stopped reading because I fucking KNEW he was about to do a

5 year hiatus and I didn't want to wait for that shit

The arc also has plenty of portions where the text heavy nature is barely present. I really think this only became a real problem in the latest volume or so. That one chapter is probably the single worst example in the series

Also, the overly exposition heavy bland ass shit is definitely a problem either way, but wasn't it at least alleviated in the volume release, and in the original Japanese? As far as I'm aware, it was the fan translations that made everything wordier than it really was.