I'm kind of predicting that Matsuri will be saved by Shirogane (maybe getting a lot of his Haku), depowering him again and making the curse unbreakable until at least the end of the manga.
Interresting concept, not a lot of GB really deal with sexual orientation change (most of the time genderbent characters just succumb to the dick or something).
Honestly I don't think that it got bad/worse, the pacing seems to be similar to what it was before, it's just annoying when you are not reading big chunks at once.
@Dikus I don't know if that's very reliable but someone in the comments once said that demon gods are a sort of failed stage that powerful cultivators above a high threshold of power eventually fail in and make them crazy, it's possible to bypass it but only Noya (the very powerful friend of...
Realistically they are not going to fight Gods and they just want to rebuild their own world or money for the Transporters, the business is shady af but Gods with bad goals would just use another method without them.