Was anyone else annoyed by the fact that they revealed to us, the audience, that Ashirogi wouldn't succeed until they did a story-driven manga, that they weren't well suited for a gag-driven manga, but we had to watch an entire season where their incompetent and, frankly, annoying editor Goro Miura had them doing gag manga?

It feels like the anime itself created a spoiler for itself that ruined all of season 2.

And then, to top it all off, we watch as the Chief Editor said that any mangaka who blames their editor for getting in the way of their artistic vision was ALWAYS IN THE WRONG1? That was just infuriating. If a mangaka wants to change editors, sometimes it is actually the editor's fault! Not always, but sometimes at least! But Bakuman sent the exact opposite message despite the fact that it's own story showed that an incompetent editor could hamper the potential of a great mangaka.

It just made me know in advance that Tanto would fail but they'd eventually suceed with a story-driven manga. So the anime lost any suspense in regards to whether Tanto would succeed or not. I was rooting for it to hurry up and fail so they could work on a story-driven manga they were actually passionate about.