So, here's what it takes to make animeblogger's blood boiling nowadays:

This series was slammed as formulaic, by the numbers, and stale, but I never bought into the anti-hype.

Now hold on just a moment. Without a link we cannot know if the anime was "slammed" this way and by whom. Even Wikipedia editors would say "citation needed", and this is a blog.

Some of what Steven wrote about IS could be interpreted this way, but he offered a more sophisicated take: the lack of "great adversity". Granted, he opined that the harem was "all by the book", but it was not the sole focus of his argument. The "gizmo fixation" is something he always throws on mecha shows, so it does not even count.

Others match Ubu's imaginary animeblogger critique even worse. I suppose Nova did mention the "pretty much all possible harem tropes", but only as a lesser contrasting failing that underlines the weak plot (same point Steven made). More importantly, he liked the series, so it wasn't "anti-hype". Evirus did not even mention any of it and largely concerned himself with the mass stupidity among the characters ("nearly every girl in his harem is also a moron", "the entire school is filled with complete idiots"). And as for yours truly, the main problem was how writers had no clue about their own characters and ruined Charlotte.

Ubu was not content with misrepresenting the reactions, however, and proceeded to commit the following masterful analysis:

Ichika is the weakest point, being the oblivious center of the harem, but the world design and slowly unfolding backstory mark this as a cut above the usual harem garbage. For once, there’s a reason all these girls are chasing the “super loser” guy — he’s the only male in the world that can operate the special women-only mechs, known as Infinite Stratos.

How does it follow that "all these girls" have to chase "the only male"? How does that make him attractive?

The actual reason is that he's the only male in the school (because everyone there is a mech pilot), and so the girls aren't having anyone else to focus on. That would be fine, but not quite what Ubu implied by mentioning the world.

Funny how the world design is somehow compensating the harem, too, whereas there's essentially no design beyond mere basics. But compared to the lapse of reasoning in the next sentence and a fail at blogging, a mere questionable opinion is insignificant.