>>714201667 (OP)I've been saying that I don't mind that the Career mode was removed from 4 in favor of a 1, 2 and 3 style timed mode. I never really liked 4 making that departure in the first place. They didn't do it right until they committed fully in Underground.
In 4, most of your missions were tutorials for mechanics, tests to prove you understood mechanics properly, normal tasks you'd be doing in the previous games anyway, and completely unrelated nonsense. All you're missing out on with this change are the tutorials, knowledge gates, and the unrelated nonsense. Everything that was actually relevant to the core mechanics is still there. The only question is how fond you were of the silly minigames, and if you thought those made the whole experience of THPS4, yeah, it's going to disappoint you. But if you felt like they were gimmicky wastes of time like I did, then you shouldn't really care that they've been trimmed out. It looks pretty promising, to be honest.