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This is the biggest example of a "mixed feelings" anime i could ever think of.
If someone could enjoy this anime really depends from person to person. I would personally rate it much higher than the average score, around 7.5, but at the same time I think that the low score is understandable.
Good thing is that the first episode is enough to understand if this anime could be enjoyed or not.
I would raccommend to watch the first episode even for just see this unique example of this anime, not necessarely to enjoy it, but to find something new.

It has two important two very important names ... behind it: Ookubo, character designer behind Soul Eater/Fire Force and Yoko Taro, director of the Nier and Drakengard series.
I know almost nothing about Ookubo other than his fame, but I am a huge Yoko Taro fan.
Despite what some people say, you can really feel Yoko Taro was behind this anime, like the tragic characters and the feeling that everything will go wrong.
If you enjoyed Taro's games before Nier Automata was a thing, like Drakengard 1 and 3, and the first version of Nier, the story story of this anime is something that you could enjoy.

But there is a huge problem: the animation and producion value.
Every person that says that animation in anime is not important lies, animation is INCREDIBLY important. Animation is essential to convey a story, and as much as the story could be good on paper, the animation feels so unfinished that the story suffers from it.
I don't know what happened, this anime is a mistery worth of a documentary, but this anime feels still in its alpha stage.
The animation is not bad by itself, it could become something good if it would be worked on, but it's unfinished.
Only the main characters are animated, it's like the memes of "average anime protagonist VS MHA protagonist" that was around some time ago, where the main characters were easily distinguishable from the others, but taken to the extreme.
And not made in a stylish way like with for example Sarazanmai, in this anime the faceless "NPCs" are annoying.
It doesn't help that even secondary recurrent characters like the protagonist's mother are not designed, and it feels less of a stylistic choice and more of an obligation made by a serious lack of budget.

In conclusion, this anime feels like the first Drakengard, where a great story was trapped behind a terrible gameplay. Only difference is that, being an anime, you could still watch it without being stucked by the unbilanced difficulty of a stage.
The rating, is only my personal score, if this anime could be an enjoyable experience really depends from person to person.