I know it's a thing generally these days because of how shit multiplayer especially has gotten but if I see something that's 'online' now I don't want anything to do with it. Every new release it's the same story, they can barely be called games anymore they're more like a live service with some minor gameplay elements tacked on in the most half-arsed way imaginable. That goes for a lot of supposedly singleplayer releases as well depending on the company.
I think I'd much rather pour my free hours into something like Microsoft Flight Simulator because then I'd at least gain a valuable skill from it and I've also found myself delving back into the good stuff that was the early 2000's releases. Even if you see something that looks vaguely promising it inevitably gets annihilated by the DEI contractors that plague this industry now.
It's extremely ironic that the games industry is trying to cater to anybody who isn't a gamer and they seem to be all mentally ill weirdos to one degree or another who have an addiction problem and fleece them for all their money before moving onto the next cringey fad. I'm sorry for coming across too black pilled, but if a game does well it seems like that developers will go out of their way to ruin it because yet again, they've shown that gamers do not matter and we're nothing more than a vehicle for hype to get their product into the normie sphere who just want to college digital items all day instead of play the fucking game.
Enemy pathfinding is the worst nowadays in so many games. It's to the point where I'm pleasantly surprised when I can't just trick their AI into the most obvious killzone ever.
I'll try not to go into too much autistic detail with that, but it's because most modern 'AI programmers' know jackshit about navmesh and A* Algorithms and how they work. So they throw together some basic patrolling behaviour, maybe if they're feeling advanced some chasing and then call it a day. Not realising that the truly advanced AI design at least mimics some believable human/animal type behaviours.
If you want to know more you should check out Half Life 1 and Halo Combat Evolved videos, there are still people studying the AI to this day because it's so fascinating. Black and White 1 is another one too but that's buggy as fuck even though I love that game, those games make modern gaming look like absolute trash.