With the game having so much going against it, from an admittedly strange art style change to much different gameplay, as well as P3Reload coming so soon. Despite this, the game is still great and the style grew on me hugely. The gameplay is great, albeit maybe slightly too easy (a recurring issue with persona 5, apparently) as well as the story dropping off towards the end, but for the vast majority of the game keeps up the momentum with two great new characters, Toshiro especially is fantastic.
Definitely worth playing, don't sleep on it.