TBH I think that's a fault of the media transition.
Novel or a comic have a leeway in how they can tell the story, visual media do not. They often have to pick pov if there are several to not confuse the audience (someone said under different episode that they treat audience like idiots and that's unfortunately true - visual medium always has to assume that the viewer is not paying attention, has to repeat information several times, and rarely is daring enough to allow the viewer to piece mystery on their own because most viewers are casuals that need clues fed to them on a silver spoon because they can't see them at all without help). They can't really do intermissions after each chapter if the story itself is not told in an episodic format that makes each episode into a closed self-standing story.
So the rush and the weird pace is most likely the issue stemming from having to switch to a completely different storytelling structure. That's also often an issue of movies that adapt books. Not only you can't pack everything that was in a book into 2-3h movie, but also the structure of a book is different than the movie structure. I think minimizing the skipping is easier with TV show as it has longer run than a movie, but anime that only commited to a certain number of episodes will sadly be rushed to oblivion (which OP mentioned in their comments under other episodes, I'm just stating it more towards others here).
It's inevitable I guess and we can't do anything with it if they really decided to adapt it like this (I didn't read the novels or the manga, so it isn't a bad watch, but I can see it too when the scenes get skipped which means it's glaring enough for a new viewer with 0 context to see as well). I had the exact same issue with Silent Witch anime skipping all the stuff that were important to the protagonist's character (mostly her mathematical way of analyzing and thinking about everything).
