Just finished Iron Gold and really don’t understand that hate

I have read many posts and watched videos, and a lot of people think this Iron Gold one of the weakest books in the whole series, and I couldn’t disagree more. I thought this book was stronger than golden son, which is a huge favorite among the community. Yes at times this book was slow, but I thought everything was logical in how it all went down, and I loved the multiple perspectives, even though at times it really annoyed me because I wanted to know what was going to happen next in that perspective. I was extremely satisfied how the plot felt unique and creative while also setting up the rest of the series to a scale that I couldn’t imagine when reading red rising. I am new to the reddit as this being my first post and finished book 1 a month ago, but this book gave me much more than the others due to incredibly crafted plot. Yea I was pissed off by some character choices but I thought they made great sense.