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tl_dr Jan 10, 2021 7:56 AM

Yea I kind of get what you mean. Haven't seen Konosuba yet, it always seemed kind of too (?) goofy for me, but maybe it's because I saw scenes out of context, etc. I've still been meaning to give it a try sometime. It's hard for me to not rate by enjoyment, because if I'm not able to enjoy something (that should be enjoyable - some anime series/books/movies/etc. aren't made purely for entertainment ofc), then I feel like it completely missed the point for me.
I kind of heard a bit about Inferno Cop, but haven't looked into it much - the episodes seem pretty short though, should probably be able to pace through it pretty quickly then, right? I understand what you wrote afterwards though about enjoyment vs. objective criteria; there's many ways to approach it, but for me it's hard to decide what I value more, but I've kind of come to the conclusion, that I'd rather value enjoyment more than objectively being good, since in the end every bit of perception is still something subjective.... I dunno, it's kinda hard to put into words, but what I mean is something like: "if you think the animation looks good / the sounds are good / the characters are well written / etc.., there's some point of objectivity there that most people would agree on, but you'd also always find people that view something the opposite way, since it's due to taste, general knowledge of other similar things ["reference values"], personal preferences and so on...". Then it's also a question of what you value most when reviewing something.
MAL's review system is kinda good for this I think, since you can give every category a score, but also have a total score. But it reminds me of things like Demon Slayer (haven't watched it yet but at least heard about it), having really great animation, but some potentially questionable writing (apparently). As an example, I tend to often regret watching stuff from the horror category, since those tend to have really unbelievable and not relatable decisions and plot conveniences etc. in them, and that often really ruins a movie/series for me, when there's just too great of a disconnect with what I seem to expect.
But when you mention Steins;Gate, I really gotta agree that pretty much everything about it is objectively good/well done (also in my opinion!), but that doesn't mean that I couldn't enjoy something that has some objectively worse aspects; it would kind of feel like everything had to match up to Steins;Gate for me to enjoy it... Well, I'm kinda going in circles now, what I kind of wanna say is that objectivity in the end is also kind of subjective (.....? haha).
In the end, I dunno if I was actually able to convey my thoughts here, like you said at the end, "I don't rate based on enjoyment but if you do that's fine", it's the same the other way around (I guess?). But I do think it's kind of "debatable" (?) to rate something really low because you didn't enjoy it as much as others did, like people giving 1's to stuff they disliked or just to "be special" lol. But i guess that's another big topic, it's hard to discuss concisely.