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So I forgot that this was the first episode with Kento and Ogami and Other Guy That I Won't Name Because Maybe Spoilers. That is a lot and it is very on-brand for early Saber. This part of the show has some of the same issues that the first few episodes of Zi-O had in that they just cram in so much that you're constantly being inundated with so many new characters and concepts that it can feel hard to keep up with it all. There's also a number of things that the show seems to just assume you'll understand without any relevant explanations being provided until later, which I always find annoying.

You know who's not annoying, though? Ogami. This was a character that I was really wrong about at the outset of the show. I assumed that he was going to be one of two things: either a minor, passing through Kamen Rider that would only be in a few episodes (a la Danki or Sabaki) or that the show was setting up him and his kid because he was going to tragically die during these two episodes. This wasn't too long after I made the call that Azu would only be in a couple of clipshows for Zero-One and wasn't a real character. I was not good at making predictions in 2020 (I hope that's not giving away too much about Ogami by referencing things he doesn't end up doing in this two-parter). In any case, he's a fun character, I like his relationship with his son, and his weapon is very obviously and hilariously made of lightweight, bendy foam in most shots.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

But yeah, like 5 full transformation/form change sequences in the span of 6 minutes? Kinda overkill.

I wasn't a fan, but I accept it under the light that Toei was trying to cut down on the amount of time that actors had to be unmasked around each other. I suspect that the reason why we got both ending credits and lots of stock footage sequences was just another COVID safety measure.