Will of the Many overhyped?

After reading rave reviews from pretty much everyone, I read TWotM. Here's a few issues I had with it:

Vis is a terrible character, it seems like things just happen to him, there's not a lot of decisions he makes (plus he's a Gary Sue, if this was a female character, we would be up in arms)

A lot of the reviews mentioned that this a magical academy book, but we know very little about the classes, the social groups in the Catenan Academy.

The other characters apart from Vis, Callidus, and Telimus were paper-thin.

The ending is the mostly incoherent and the wolf thing was weird as hell. The Obiteum and Luceum reveal was amazing though.

Anyone else feel this way? What other books would you recommend that improve on these aspects.