Looks like it. There's only one name under Scenario in the in-game credits.
宇野涼平 Uno Ryohei (Ryohei first name)
His Twitter is at https://twitter.com/ryohuno but he's protected his tweets. Figures.
There seems to be a Wiki dedicated to his "low quality scenario": http://www50.atwiki.jp/unoryohei/pages/25.html
I guess if there's even a Wiki complaining about him, then there's probably a significant amount of people displeased about PSO2's story.
Who knows how accurate the information on there is, though.
It says Uno Ryohei's previous works are:
PSU Ambition of Illuminus: enemy planner (ie. movement and method of attack, not design art) for Ubakurada
PS Zero: Sub scenario, enemy planner (Ark design)
Phantasy Star Portable 2, Infinity: Main scenario (as support to Takaharu Terada)
Interestingly, it says the Staff Roll of PSO2 has changed the credits listing several times:
PC version initial launch: Uno Ryohei, Otake Yasushi
Vita launch (Quna arc): Uno Ryohei only
After the start of episode 2: Uno Ryohei, Otake Yasushi
And as I mentioned above, episode 4 currently only lists Uno Ryohei as Scenario staff.
Even more interestingly, one of the introduction questions is, "I feel like I know something else with a similar scenario to PSO2...?"
The answer is that Uno Ryohei has a habit of often reusing his old scenarios and copying other games and anime.
Then it lists 3 similar past works that seem to be linked to him.
It even says there's a term called "Unorish". It's a parody of a Nomura Tetsuya Squenix work's language, known as "Nomlish".
It refers to Uno Ryohei's "strange writing even for a Japanese", "plagiarism from other works", "new and meaning unknown combination of Chinese characters", etc.
If this Wiki is true, then I guess it wasn't so much SEGA trying to be trendy and popular but that their scenario writer is... lacking.
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