Thanks for sharing your detailed thoughts. I'm glad you've been mostly enjoying your time with the game. I think the difficulty here is the first thing they should look into tweaking, and I'll probably come back and try it again after another patch or two.

I swing back and forth between a hyper-completionist mindset and focusing more on main story content. Ideally I'll strive for a balance where I only do the main story, and only pick out side quests that seem interesting to me in the moment, but that doesn't always pan out, especially if I'm trying to write a review or participate in some sort of online discussion around the time a game has released, haha.

I also like to really dive deep into games that grab me. My most played game to date is probably Diablo III, which I've poured many hundreds of hours into across a variety of platforms. Even though a lot of folks think of it as the worst of the franchise, it is my favorite, for a whole list of weirdly specific reasons.