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They pushed entire roll system to the limits in SotE. It's dead end. To move forward they need to go Sekiro+Bloodborne path and never design SotE shit bosses ever again.
They did impressive job with SotE's open world vertical again and failed so hard by making it totally empty. Vabilla ER had pretty good rewards for exploration besides ashes dogshit and crafting.
Ashes is shit system. Either go full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-rBtlOsrs and design game around group AI play like Dragon's Dogma or fuck off