Season 1 definitely becomes a weaker experience in the last third of it as the years go by and better stories keep coming out, while it's nice that it's a mostly comfy experience it stays too comfy even in the ultimate climactic race and especially after the game main story redo showed how dramatic and exciting that period was actually supposed to be it gets harder to appreciate the season 1 version of it. And yeah that overbearing Spe-Suzuka attachment issue in the episodes before the Broye JC ending arc doesn't really get any more watchable as time goes on