Don’t be, at all. 
I value all feedback, positive or negative, and especially from people I know are sincere fans (who if I’m not mistaken long ago expressed some worries about the direction of G2). I just wanted the first response to be thank you, and your comments are welcome here. Look for a more thorough response later.
Edit: So, looking over your post again, the main thing I’d ask is: examples, please, if you don’t mind taking the time! Where specifically did you not find the option to ask or challenge someone that you wanted to? Where was Herne dumb or Yed inconsistent? Where did you feel the Abhumans were “plot armored” and against what?
We won’t necessarily agree in our readings. When it comes to the crab insult, for example, I’m grateful for your feedback but still think that’s consistent with the village as I’ve written it: a place where most residents live with the unspoken fear of being kicked out into the Storms because they pissed off the elders, and where the elders are quick to expel people who look like trouble. I also don’t think it’s implausible that the village would have a culture where insults were taken seriously, and mocking someone’s Change was one of the greatest dishonors you could do to them.
But in other cases, I might well agree. I added the arrogant noble path in G1 after early reader feedback. I can easily imagine adding equivalents here.
The exception, you’ll probably be unsurprised to hear, is for any readers who want the choice to respond to Jev’s gender with outright rejection and intolerance, rather than the tolerant confusion which is at present the far end of the response spectrum. I don’t think all plausible worlds have gender intolerance baked into them, and I’m on board with CoG’s mission to write equal-opportunity escapism for trans and cis people alike.
For any readers unsure whether your thoughts on Jev cross a line that might get you banned from the forum, feel free to PM me.
One last comment: much of the info being dumped in the chapter is by people with an agenda; it shouldn’t be taken as “voice of the author.” By the end of Game 2 both Halassur and the Abhumans will be looking rather different than they seem in their introductions here. The full picture may or may not be any more satisfying to you – we’ll see then – but for the time being, do bear in mind that what we have in Ch 1 isn’t it.