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The current persona team is not very good at crafting a scenario. This should also be evidenced by how they're doing two remakes in a row.
What makes this route work at all imo is instantly getting the feeling something was subtly altered the second Goro shows up out of nowhere in the crowd, and their decision to cut an anime cutscene in that same section I think was a good move with that in mind and it goes well with this Lovecraft heavy section of the game, but you don't get that kind of read on the scenario at all if you aren't very familiar with how P5 is supposed to end.
Hell the entire story is basically about getting back to how it originally ended with Joker getting arrested and Goro being dead(?) which should be apparent by now and Maruki asking the question of if doing that is really worth it, which is this arc's strength, but the new ending focuses half as much on that because it really does assume you already know what the ending is supposed to be. It doesn't make Joker getting arrested feel significant at all because it lacks the original Christmas Eve and skips not quite as much as the anime does but half of what comes after that.