I'm not at all an anime fan, the only one I almost watched through is Death Note years ago, but still gave up 2/3 of the way through when the anime levels went through the roof and the main conflict got resolved in a pretty contrived manner.
Recently I started watching Frieren. My girlfriend likes it a lot. The themes are nice and the plot is simpe but fine, but at the same time there's constant heavy-handed exposition, when the characters all but talk directly to the audience explaning stuff everyone on screen is supposed to know and see as obvious; endlessly repeating dialogue where thy keep hammering the same point over and over, like it's written for the people who watch whilst glued to their phones - these thing bting the emotional impact down quite a bit. General anime tropes I can deal with no problems, but these are somewhat exhausting. Not enough for me to stop watching yet, though.