I know Chapter 5 was supposed to be the silly before the storm, but it's still an odd choice

Fans and Toby himself saying that this chapter was for us to look away from the darkness for a bit and have fun one last time doesn't make its placement in the plot any less strange for me.

Because Chapter 3 already did that. It was already the really goofy adventure preceding the darkness. And then in Chapter 4, we face that darkness head-on, we encounter the Knight multiple times, we see much more of the Prophecy than Ralsei has told us, the gang's friendship gets tested, we get a glimpse of the terror of the Roaring, and we learn that saving the worlds will come at a price that the heroes don't want to pay.

But then Chapter 5 for the most part doesn't follow up on that. The Knight only appears at the very end but does less than it does in Chapter 3 (There wasn't even much tension in Asgore's kidnapping because we already saw the Knight do that in a much more intense scene that also was after we met them the first time and fought them), and we don't get into Susie's dread of the final prophecy, she and Ralsei don't discuss it at all except for in the praying scene.

All the stuff with Flowery and the other Flowers was good, but I feel like their part of the story should have been before the Sanctuary/Prophecy/Titan part of the story. Chapter 5 felt so disconnected from 4 and I thought it would just grow on me in time like Chapter 3 did, but the more I think of Chapter 5 as a follow-up to 4, the more frustrated I am with it.