Spoilers Ahead: The Entertainment District Arc has been the best Demon Slayer has gotten, but that doesn't mean its very high. A lot of my issues with Demon Slayer are addressed in this next season, the most noticeable change being the pacing. The first season spans over 26 episodes while this season is only 11. This is mostly due to the first season having 3 arcs. All of which move at a horrible pace that keeps you in one place too long mostly due to budget saving techniques like the cardinal sin move of replaying the same scene twice. Now it does appear at times in this arc as well which is strange due to only having 11 episodes. As for the plot, it doesn't move too quickly or too slowly. It has an alright pacing. Zenitsu also isn't an unbearable piece of shit for most of the season and Tanjiro doesn't have any dense MC moments either so also an improvement on characters and tropes I can't stand.
However, this season also continues to frustrate me from a story and character perspective, most notably in Nezuko. She has become a walking plot device that logically doesn't make sense. The fact that the one thing the heroes need to live is to remedy the poison and it just so happens that Nezuko can fucking cure poison is so lazily written and contrived. Same can be said for how powerful she is when she goes big-tittied flower branch mode. She realistically should not be able to have regenerative powers on par with a demon who's eaten countless victims. The writing is so lazy when it comes to Nezuko due to the fact that everything can be "explained" by she's an anomaly. Now that would be my biggest gripe with this season.

As for the animation, Abe does make a very stellar final showdown that does what it was created to do, create hype. That being said, the season as a whole is weighed down by budget cutting techniques that I noticed them pulling a lot. Such as Tanjiro getting launched outside a building to be met with a 3D render that stays constant throughout its journey.
Or the large amount of still frames with only 3D objects moving. It feels off and jank. The majority of the season having very normal or just meh animation. All together I'm willing to say that the animation ends at around average to upper average level with the two cancelling each other out for the most part. It truly feels like Demon Slayer was made for a format that cuts away all the fat and just throws the story at you fast. Because all of the fat doesn't feel deep, add depth to characters, it just serves to move the plot along.
Demon Slayer does finally do something that any decent story can do, write a character arc and backstory properly. The main demon, not Daki, has a proper retelling of how he came to be. He was a monster who lashed out at the world for making him into one, but at the end of the day they don't want you to have sympathy for him. It's genuinely well done just from the fact that they don't try to give the demons a tragic backstory that's supposed to make you feel bad for them- fuck no. They murder countless people of course they're unredeemable.
A huge problem with the demons, that was proved in this actually compelling backstory, is the fact that I only actually seem to give a shit about the demon after they're dead. If I had learned of the demon's past before or at the very latest, at the start of the battle, then I would have found the battle to be much more compelling. Knowing the backstory of both sides clashing to a fight to the death is much more interesting than one character being explored while the other is just labeled "a tough foe."
They also employ a lot of "bullshittery" for lack of a better term with how they treat fake out deaths. Inosuke had the biggest bullshit moment when he says to have moved his heart from getting stabbed. Despite the fact that he did not see the attack coming, being snuck up behind. We see Inosuke getting stabbed before we even see the Demon. It's as sudden to the characters as it is the viewer. So him saying, "nah I'm good I moved that shit before he got me" is complete nonsense and now makes the moment feel cheap and lazy from the writer to add fake tension and move the scales of the fight.
Speaking of which my biggest gripe with Demon Slayer as a whole would be the surface level storytelling in general. Let's take the scales of power during the final fight. Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2 implements this technique and fully utilizes it to play with the viewer's emotions on whether or not the good guys will win and hoping at every moment everyone makes it out safe. Demon Slayer incorporates this by simply faking out character deaths to then bring them back. It's the most surface level writing you can employ for this kind of fight. The same can be said about most of my issues with this season, its just not logical, explained or implemented well, or just surface level. That is why it stays around the range it's at, it does not truly offer anything of real substance besides its final fight and demon backstory that's shown too late. The fight itself is a spectacle but it cannot save an entire season of just meh and alright.