Darling in the franxx, I was really interested in the world building and was on the minority of people that liked the episodes that had no mecha fights and they were just exploring the current city and how weird it was.

But trigger couldn't contain themselves and had to do their asspulls and sudden massive power escalation that worked on Gurren Lagann because it wasn't a grounded take on post-apocalyptic future with a few mechas that defend humanity!