I love Elden Ring as a whole but I do agree it's too large for its own good. I remember on my first playthrough I started to get really tired of doing any more mini-dungeons by the time I got to Mountaintops, and I'm someone who usually obsessively explores every nook and cranny and clears out every single enemy in these games. It always blew my mind that ER supposedly has bigger enemy variety than any of their previous games, because to me it absolutely feels like the variety is much worse here compared to e.g. Bloodborne, but that's just because ER's size is so incredibly bloated. Really hope their next big singleplayer title will be something more constrained and similar in size to BB or Sekiro again. With all that legitimate criticism said, ER is still a beautiful and intricately crafted work of art with unironically the deepest lore of any From game thus far. Also the greatest variety of builds and possible playstyles they've ever included in a single game. It really is the culmination of the 'Dark Souls'/RPG-heavier branch of their catalogue. The hylic troons who obsessively hatepost about the game in every thread are annoying and cringe.