I completely respect your opinion on this and would agree that Zero K is jarring if your a fan of his earlier work.

However, I quite enjoyed it. It was short and to the point. It also reminded me quite a bit of my own experience walking through the hospice ward in the days leading up to my grandmothers death. The namelessness of it, the religious iconography, even the traveling to a distant place (AR) and sleeping there in the hospital. Because of this I feel it was not so much a book about cytogenetics but how living people deal with death. The cryogenic part of it could easily be supplanted with our religious beliefs that we will die and wake up in a better world.