Which is awesome, they went too far the other way with P4.
Vonegutt's graphs are a good good general outline to follow for the recent Persona's.
I consider P3 leaning into Kafka in its defeatism, but with a dash of anime villainy/monster of the
week month. Its like a blend of Cinderella and Kafka if you tack on the Kafka part to the end of the Cinderella graph for the protag. The world/plot as a whole follows the Cinderella plot (just not to infinity), though.
Meanwhile, I like to consider P4 the Scooby Doo (somewhere between Man in Hole and Boy Meets Girl) of Persona. It almost even has a Scooby Doo form of structure with how they go about the character arcs. And the Shadow would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those pesky kids and their bear!
I'll not say anything on P5 since that'd be a spoiler!
I quite enjoy the character/story arcs in Persona, though I do still think they crested the peak with P3Protag and have since had satisfying arcs but been arcing short of the P3 arc. Of course, the other characters have become more developed and the story as a whole has improved.