Now that I've had the time to think this over a bit, I came to three conclusions.
1. Bad seat - I was sitting in front row mezz far house left. Although I "saw" everything happening on stage, I thought many of the theatrical design elements and blocking catered very strongly to center orchestra viewing and couldn't appreciate this fully from where I was sitting. I guess you could call this a poor design choice, but then again I've just been spoiled by Fun Home's in-the-round.
2. Potential - I was distracted the entire time thinking of how great this production could have been. I found most of the cast (the main roles anyway) very good and the story had some good material. What ruined it for me were the songs (not memorable at all - I can't hum a single tune), design (found many things over-designed and in a way that doesn't work well together), and execution (really Diane, what happened? Harvey get in the way?).
3. Audience - Perhaps one of the biggest detractors was the audience. Many there were not your usual theater goers, from never ending photo taking to constant chatter (there was an entire thread dedicated to this), and I found this lack of appreciation to the craft very frustrating more than anything else. Most of the people sitting around me were there only for Matthew Morrison and confused parents who bought tickets hoping to show their kids Peter Pan.
If there's one analogy I can make to wrap this up, the production felt like an over budget ride in an amusement park. I personally like theme parks better.
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Now that I wrote this down, not sure if any of this makes any sense lol. Apologies to you dear reader.
