Speaking from experience, you can make Letterboxd tolerable in an afternoon by blocking anyone who slightly annoys you. Most of those one-liners are from the same dozen or so popular accounts.
The sequel's great if you watch an edit that undoes a bunch of studio mandated changes. They hired a documentary filmmaker expecting a straight sequel and he turned in a metanarrative about how much he hates what the original film did for the perception of documentary filmmaking.
I used a cheat table to give myself unlimited resources to build all the roads at the start of the game. I have no patience for busywork mechanics that just increase downtime between story events. Even after doing this it still took 30+ hours to finish.
