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This point is where the show completely falls off. The previous seasons and the movie are generic in a lot of ways but entertaining enough to keep watching, this season however is pathetc.
First I will get the obvious out of the way and acknowledge the undeniable drop in animation quality, but beyond that the story and characters become incomprehensibly bad. The most succint way I can describe this without giving specifc spoilers is that there is a character whose allegiance is all over the place, they are double agents, no wait, they are triple agents, no wait, they are back to double agents, no ... wait, they are now openly loyal to one side oh wait, no they aren't.

This is already handled extremely poorly and it is made a million times worse by the fact that it is effectively never addressed, all parties involve ed in this season are aware of this characters constant back stabbing and fickle "loyalty" yet for somreason never do anything about it and every single other character in the show allows this character to freely walk around their base and interact with them like they are good friends and they hadn't fought tooth and nail trying to help a depraved, perverted "scientist" do horrific experiments on children. It is so painfully stupid, having a traitor could have easily been a great angle to take but the way it is handled here with nobody caring about the perpetual betrayals, nobody treating the person any different, none of their actions having any consequences means it is all utterly pointless, none of it goes anywhere, has any weight or significance to it, it is the most anticlimactic way to incorporate a "twist" humanly possible.

I will take a moment to point out this review focuses largely on events surrounding one character because that is what this season primarily revolves around, however believe it or not I am trying to keep this brief but there are so many things about this season that are bad, some subjective but mostly objective that it is difficult to even scratch the surface without turning this into a dissertation, apologies for that, but it is fair to say most of the main characters are handled poorly. The power scaling is a mess, even as far as shounen go it is inconsistent and there are dialogue/inner mononlogues that make no sense because they are questioning things they themselves first hand experienced, it is as if the events of the final episodes of season 1 have been retconned and the show is only now trying to build to stuff that was revealed all the way back in 2011.

Lastly, again without outright spoiling specifics, as you know from the synopsis this season introduces another powerful organization, however nothing about this organization makes sense, the being who is in charge of it and the goal they are striving towards is directly contradicted by the rest of the organization being manned by humans. Which makes the above mentioned traitor angle even more sloppy because it means there is zero, literally zero reason for their betrayal, their whole "personality", the one thing driving them is their own survival and they go about this by betraying people they trust to work with an organization they can't trust and who are actively trying to destroy, how can it even be argued that that makes sense?

I finished this season out of curiosity and read a little bit of what comes next in the story and jesus wept somehow the impossible happens and it gets worse and dumber beyond this point, like I said despite being relatively generic I liked the show before this point but this season, it's "story", it's inconceivably poor handling of a twist involving recoginzable characters and it's ignoring of scenes in earlier seasons is all objectively bad writing. I can't in good conscience recommend this and I for one won't be watching any more of this going forward.

The single best example of wasted potential. Obviously nothing is perfect, everything has flaws, but this is an oddity because all of it's issues are tied to it's creator intentionally sabotaging it.

He made a world that took off, the setting, the characters, the fights, the power system were all well received. Instead of making the most of the opportunity to explore his own fiction, tell a story,entertain the masses while raking in the money, he has openly admited he is doing everything humanly possible to ruin it, of course he doesn't use that terminology but has publicly said that he kills characters not because it ... advances the story, not because it develops other characters, not because it serves any purpose, he kills characters solely because they are popular.

There has only been one singular death that has been well handled because it served as a plot point to advance the story, but all the other crap that happens in season 2 and that will happen going forward is objective poor writing.

Make no mistake, there are plenty of anime that have main/recurring characters dying in unceremonious ways but they handle it properly becuase their deaths may not be a drawn out, dramatic 10 episode arcs, but they serve a purpose, even if that purpose is simply to showcase that nobody is safe or how great the threat is they face. JJK however does none of this, the events in season 2 do not tell us anything that has not already been shoved down our collective throat since day 1 and serves no discernable purpose whatsoever. Here is Gege's "logic":
"millions of people enjoy my creation and want to see more of it, instead of paying any attention to them, I will systematically destroy my own lore and arbitrarily kill my best characters in flat, unceremonious ways so that people on social media whose only interaction with my creation comes in the form of memes and reels will brand me as "edgy""

If you want to watch a show, written by a man deliberately and continually using objectively poor writing to waste most of the cast while intentionally missing every possible opportunity for good story telling, decent character development, taking advantage of literally limitless powers, then maybe this is worth a watch.
However, if you want cohesive or even coherent story telling that does not actively waste it's own fiction, this is not for you.