How do I get into it? I tried playing right when they added cleaning and didn't like having to clean the entire time.

AW2's big story issues are the pacing since it wants you to swap between Alan and Saga's story at your own choice, but that just makes you either flip flop in ways that don't give a good flow or just go through one after the other which is a much better but still stilted pacing in parts. Should've just done a dual campaign or something. Also I don't like the Control crossover taking up a lot of screentime in the third act and fucking with the vibes AW2 was going for a bit.