lets have a civil conversation about this. Why donyou find it terrible. Persona Q is actually pretty fun
Okay so first off, I probably wouldn't call it absolutely terrible, since there are still a few things I like about it. It's just that for me, the issues outweigh those, and coming at the game as someone who is only familiar with EO, it just doesn't hold up to the actual EO games.
The biggest problem for me is the lack of proper character building/progression. In EO, while each character has a defined class, you're still given a lot of freedom as to how exactly you want to build a character within the definitions of that class. There's a lot of scope for experimentation with different character builds and class combinations, in a way that a lot of other RPG series don't even come close to.
It's one of my absolute favourite things about the series, so I didn't care for PQ dropping that in favour of very static characters with nothing particularly unique about any of them, and all the spells can be learned by almost anyone so there's no reason to experiment with different party setups.
The game also has basically no character balancing. A lot of characters become pretty much unusable after a certain point because they aren't able to keep up with TP costs and stuff.
It also kinda feels like they didn't know what they wanted the game to be? There's a lot of mechanics they take from Persona that don't really work in the EO-like setting, like having to step on every single tile on a floor in order to unlock the bonus chest. Even in actual EO games you don't have to cover literally every tile to map out a floor.
I did like the dungeon aesthetics and soundtrack, though (even if the soundtrack doesn't live up to the actual EO soundtracks, but it's kinda hard to beat Yuzo Koshiro). Didn't care for the story or characters (possibly due to being unfamiliar with Persona, since it's all just fanservice).
I still think if someone enjoyed PQ, it's worth at least trying out an actual EO game. They are fundamentally the same game (PQ literally uses the EO engine, after all), but at least for me EO just brings the whole experience together much better than PQ does. It is the original while PQ is just the imitator, after all. :p