As much as I hate isekai I would have preferred that the protagonist had actually been killed at the red light he ran at the start of the book, rather than this fence-sitting, "you see what you want to see" augmented reality shit that just feels wishy washy. I'm also halfway in and whilst it's beating me over the head with the themes of chasing your dreams and having passions instead of just going to an office job and having casual sex and not really caring about your life it's yet to really introduce what the plot is about beyond saving the kidnapped secretary.
Please rec me some proper pirate fantasy so I can drop this. I've already read On Stranger Tides.