I like decorating outside but everything else is worse in new AC games.
The villagers have more samey, tamed down personalities because anxiety riddled modern gamers and women would have a nervous breakdown if one was rude to them.
The mayor/god complex gameplay is completely unnecessary and only there because control freak modern gamers and women would have a panic attack if they couldnt micromanage every single little aspect about their virtual dolls.
Crafting sucks. Its only there to pad early game busywork.
Having a smartphone is antisoul.
Nook is basically gone.
Villager Trading exists and so a black market popped up for it creating an economy and putting values to what should just be your neighbors that youre stuck with. Before we had to make due and grow to love them, now you do shit like go on discord and find whoever you want to go pick up. They even ask permission to leave from you because once again, its a dollhouse for neurotic control freaks.
Isabelle is a DEI hire and Pelly and Phyllis lost their jobs because of her.