^ For sure, I would've prefered a return to the stealth oriented gameplay but apparently you can still sorta do it so I won't complain too much. The whole "growing your settlement and clan" thing seems like they're trying to ape RDR too much and I don't really care for stuff that just sounds like vapid busywork personally.
But the real problem seems to lie in AC not really knowing what audience its even aiming for anymore. There seems to be two camps from what I can see - people who are only interested in the historical sandbox versus those who are much more invested in the present day storyline with very few people in-between. Ubisoft is trying to unsucessfully balance the two even now with Valhalla having both sides apparently but I keep seeing people say that they would prefer AC just stick to one or the other in each game.