It was a bad story. Yeah, there were some structural issues, but it was derivative, boring, and funny for all the wrong reasons. Note to beta readers: You're not editors. It's not your job to pull apart a story and build it back up. You can point the writer, publisher, whatever-whatever, in the right direction, but if someone tells you to knock it all down and then start piecing it back together again, tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.