I don't know if I would say it's the wrong direction, but they are definitely hinging on the newtype mythos way way harder than I ever hoped. I thought Char's Counterattack would be peak newtype stuff, then Unicorn came along and made CCA look tame. Then Narrative came along and made Unicorn look tame.
I get when people say that the newtype nonsense was always present and was always the direction it was going, but I don't get when people act offended when others don't like it. I honestly never predicted the newtype thing would get so out of hand.