Glad its once again "because I don't like something, its trash and everyone who likes it is retarded normies."

Its a game with fun combat and a solid story mostly free of any modern wokeness (which is why mainstream media hated it on release, because of its "racism"). That's why people are buying it, its fun and it has a reputation for being so without any strings besides the open world being tacked on. Fortunately because its tacked on its so useless that you can also nearly completely ignore it and just chain missions. Not a defense of it, but literally nobody defends it either.

I refuse to double dip, especially full price, so I can't speak of any changes this Director's Cut and new island made from the original. But the entire reason anyone liked it was because the combat was fun and just felt good to play, as well as being a legitimate stealth game in an industry that hates those.