SAO anime fans

I haven't read the manga, but I have enjoyed the anime. Ok, if I'm being honest - I feel the new season airing this season has been the best part of the entire series so far. Really, my biggest beef with the previous seasons was the fact that they chose to focus solely on Kirito and Asuna and their character developments and their relationship. They had a ton of other great characters, and chances to better character development for them and they just chose to only show those characters in a few episodes here and there. They had Lizbeth, and Klein, Aegil, etc. All those awesome characters and they barely did anything with them. Honestly, I'm loving the season because it has a much more serious tone and mood to it, and we've got these great new characters. They're actually exploring Asada's story and what not.