I mean, you all could guess what I would say. Most of it has already been said. They're squandering a cool stage setup by playing a static show with most of the song choices being totally uninteresting.
It's pretty easy to understand why the show doesn't change after the intermission when you see the show. They're very into what they've got going on with the graphics and the themes.
The biggest issues:
1. Feeling obligated to connect the show to the first tour, which means The Ocean > Iris > Cedarwood Road > Sunday Bloody Sunday is a staple sequence. The only modifications to that section from the first tour is removing the pre-chorus from Iris, adding The Ocean to transition from the start of the show, and cutting out Raised by Wolves, which was probably the highlight of that part anyway. That version of Sunday Bloody Sunday sucks shit, and is when I went to grab a beer the first night. The second night, I got a beer during The Ocean.
2. Putting the only interesting throwbacks into the rotational slot. Gloria/The Electric Co. would be better nightly than trotting out I Will Follow again, as fun as the latter always is.
3. Having All Because of You in the show.
4. Misjudging the best of the last two albums. The open of the show is the best part of incorporating the new material. It seems to me a good, meaningful way to address Bono's health issue (which I suspect was a stroke based on the content of the show). But then they've got seven staple songs through the rest of the show from the new albums:
Iris
Cedarwood Road
Best Thing
Get Out
American Soul
Love Is Bigger
13
Only Love Is Bigger of any of those songs has earned that sort of slot. How do you decide "we have ten songs from the last pair of albums" and then decide on that batch? Where's Little Things? Where's Red Flag Day? Where's The Troubles or Raised by Wolves (which you've fucking played!)? These guys are fucking idiots. Their single selection sucked ass, again.
5. Playing City of Blinding Lights to end the main set because they get to put up those lights is so fucking uninspiring. Play Streets, or anything interesting.
Anyway, enough of me bitching. The thing I found most impressive, other than how they've incorporated Acrobat into the show? The pairing of Staring at the Sun and Pride. It makes no sense on paper, but the way they are doing it fucking works. I did not see it coming. The screen transition from the videos of the Charlottesville rioters into MLK leading protests is genuinely affecting.