There were a number of factors that I think made it quasi-doomed from the start.
The main thing was that it was an entirely rushed affair. The pilot was done extremely quickly, it seems, so they didn't have much of a hold on what they actually wanted to do. And they pitched it for Fall 2016 instead.
I think it all could've worked more if they didn't commit so fully to the realism aspect of it all and had more fun with stuff.
But, honestly, it was probably the best full-length thing (web videos excluded) they've done since MCC (the two recent movies are fine, but they're also sloppy messes of plotting and editing).