Vague spoiler warning!

Dragon Ball Super, more specifically the manga, is by far one of the worst manga I have ever read. It has almost zero substance, yet still manages to shoot the franchise's legacy in the foot at every single opportunity, leading to an extremely frustrating experience for longtime fans of the series. I wish it was more than "good guys get new underwhelming technique, start to win, bad guys starts to get upper hand, beats good guys until we've wrung this arc dry and end it with some curveball BS", but it's not. This happens in almost every single arc, excluding the Tournament of Power (to an extent!) and it leads to a very unsatisfying conclusion every single time.

If that wasn't enough, the series continually performs character assassination on Goku and Vegeta, who have both become alzheimer's patients and forget their own character arcs every time a new arc starts. Vegeta is much more notably the worst offender of this. He goes through the same monologue he had during the Boo saga as Majin Vegeta in nearly every arc, either that or it's exchanged for a "Muh Bulma!!" version instead.

Another thing you may notice here is that this entire manga is a retread of the Super anime, and I phrased it like that because yes, this manga came AFTER the anime, and somehow manages to make all of the arcs much worse than their animated counterparts. Toyotarou, the main author and illustrator of the manga, feels the need to make small changes to each arc (which have slowly added up over time leading to characters having completely different forms in between the anime/manga) which has caused many fans to be confused as to which one is the "canon" one. Toei and Bandai Namco both promote the anime as the canon one, although you wouldn't be able to tell that because the only indicator of it is through Bandai's forgettable franchise called "Dragon Ball Heroes", which has (as far as I can tell) never acknowledged the manga's original transformations and power-ups. This is just one more reason why this manga is completely worthless.

But we can't ignore the arc that the manga is currently in, which has not been adapted by the anime. And my god, without the anime as a frame, Toyotaro has completely failed at creating a functioning plotline, leading to it feeling, as I stated previously, like it has zero substance yet also extremely frustrating to read considering the legacy of this franchise. For real though, this is one of Shonen Jump's biggest IPs, and all they can manage to scrounge up for the next entry in the Dragon Ball series is a fanfiction author? What a joke of a company.