I mean this season specifically sucks with pacing. Episodes are ending at the wrong spots most of the time. They're dropping big reveals at the quarter marks of episodes. Or resolving issues within the same episode, only to blur other events that aren't particularly weighty across episodes.

The only thing they've gotten right is the Hinata fight and this last episode ending on Rimuru and team about to launch their counter-offensive.

The manga is much better storyboarded out.