after 2 weeks I believe:

- that playing the endgame in its current state is an unhealthy waste of time-effort.

- that the game isn't particularly hard. but it's not fun either.

- that the 3 acts campaign had its moments, but ultimately felt tedious.

- that the game won’t leave early access until 2026.

- that it probably was stuck in deep development hell until they decided to make it standalone instead of 4.0.

- that these time wasting humiliating mechanics (trials and endgame - forced repetition, dumb on-death one-shots, one try per map-citadel...) feel put to inflate player engagement, knowing most players would hate them but go through with it due to sunk cost & fomo.

- that marketing the ea so much was a mistake.

Yep
+1 to everything, this EA feels completely rushed out and undercooked.