>>718786013
>Significantly worse party building, combat and level design.
Metaphors combat is better than Persona 3-5 but it's slow as fuck and the gating to higher end classes and abilities means you can't even crack open the system until the 70% mark of the game. Expedition 33s system is more freeform with pictos before you even consider the action element which I'll concede can be a matter of taste. You start feeling like you can actually play the game much faster than Metaphor.