Well, my JA3 ironman playthrough finally hit the brick wall recently. Just a few little errors of judgment and some unfortunate mis-clicks and UI mishaps on my part sealed the fate of Grand Chien and about 12 good mercs. Well, some not so good.
I'm already replaying and have taken Ernie island but I won't post about it, maybe again when I get as far as I was.

Very enjoyable game, I'd say. More on the tactical/combat side of CRPG but there's still quite a good amount of choices and consequences, plenty of banter, things like certain mercs developing like/dislike of each other or won't work or prefer to work with someone. How you deal with a situation might come up later, etc.
Someone many threads ago brought up the "reddit goofiness", I also thought that was a major thing before I played. I think it was bad trailers or promotional material. It's much less goofy than say, Wasteland 3 for instance. It's got its moments for sure but not a defining quality even, imo.
It's a shame that it doesn't seem to have done better, I'd love a follow-up that expands on what it did well and improves what it's lacking. Looking forward to hopefully seeing it through to the end this time. There are a variety of difficulty settings of course if you don't prefer to play scarce resource/wounds/ironman. The ironman mode is more a 'single save' so if you TPK in combat you can reload when you enter combat, but sometimes you might be facing something unwinnable if you burst in like a dum-dum.

Anyhow, all in all, maybe 8.5/10