I think the Martez sisters arc got a lot of undue hate for being dished out weekly over the course of a month while everyone was chomping at the bit for the Siege of Mandalore (separate from the absurd backlash to hairstyles with shaved bits). It made the slow pace and plot inefficiency very apparent, even though quite a few arcs are like that. Still, I’d be interested to see how much you can chop it down without feeling like it loses anything.

I think I liked it more than the Bad Batch arc. Clone Force 99 themselves are just clichés and the villains are back to being Season 1-3 tier. Anakin is fun, I suppose, with his secret rendezvous and tendency towards killing his enemies. It just doesn’t really feel at home where it is in the pacing of the series IMO, but Anakin’s long hair model forces it to be there, and since we now know that it was actually a backdoor pilot for the next animated series, I doubt you could drop it from any of your cuts.