Raids overall this series (ShB):
1) Gear (okay. Some good, some terrible. Some designs have small variations that don't really make them distinguishable).
2) Adding the 2B glamour/hair/9S hair was great, but missing 9S entire set (not make-shift glamour that we make ourselves) was rather disappointing for adding hair, but outfit.
3) Story made no sense and was just a "LOL THEY CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD!"
4) Most of the bosses throughout the entire raid series weren't actually IN Automata. Some, yes. but especially the last raid (current), all the bosses were either in (NieR) or Gestalt (unless I missed hansel and gretel somehow in Automata), which neither of were from. This is why I questioned not getting Kaine's armor, among other armor from the same games (also NieR remastered releasing this fri!).
5) Questline.... questionable. Also fairly boring mixed in with the dwarves.
6) Music: excellent!
7) Fights: so-so (depends on the raid. Final was probably the best it could be and made some references in Automata for sure with the wall backgrounds through the digital hacking 9S does).

Overall: 3/5

Not the absolute BEST raid series-- but also not the worst. But I don't think I'd put it in my top 5 in raid series so far. I'm moreso glad it's over, but we're still missing bits and pieces (which hopefully will fully explain everything with these weekly side quests. How long is the question really)