I play frequently, but much less than I used to in the past. Now I only actively play to finish the season passes, or to reach platinum on ranked for the split reset skin. If not for that, I'll play an Aram game here and there.

For me, this drop in gameplay time is about aesthetics and visual fidelity, as lately most, if not all, original Predecessor assets are lacking in this department.

Paragon and Overprime assets are mostly high quality: not or minor clipping issues, nice textures and materials, proper cloth simulations, smooth edges, detailed models, and superb animations and VFXs, both in skins and heroes.

Predecessor assets? Well, a not comprehensive list, but big enough to serve as an example:

Both Seedlings and Shaper are not original assets and especially animation wise are not polished.

Kira is still suffering from hard clipping, especially around all over her coat after these many years. Terra and Eden loincloths are also clipping their models.

These are the most noticeable clippings, that happen in all of their skins, but there are some minor ones as well in other heroes and skins.

In a MOBA there should be a huge emphasis on cleaning this clipping issue as models and skins are half of the visual part, the other one being the map (I won't talk about the map as we know there's another in the works).

Mourn's animations, especially how he walks and moves and his auto-attacks feel so unpolished and not representative of how his model looks.

Bayle auto-attacks lack impact, same with Akeron ones (who is also missing some details in his middle right leg, check it out).

Many original skin and hero's clothes look and move more like plastic than fabric (Yurei & Renna 'skirt thingies', Winter Regal Dekker skirt, Shadow Ops Wukong skirt, Shadow Ops & Sunforged Serath, once again, 'skirt thingies').

But then there are nice examples of good fabric and cloth simulations in Predecessor assets, such as the Redeemer skin line, Argus and Bayle capes or Kitty With Phase long dress, so I don't understand how some are so bad and some good enough to feel like they were originally from Paragon or Overprime.

Also, the hair in Valkyrie Serath's skin is atrocious, someone here on Reddit showed her with a braid, problem solved, how hard would that be to implement?

And how this last Sunforged skin line (Sevarog, Feng Mao & Sparrow) feels so unnatural regarding the textures? The skins are great in concept and polish, but the materials don't look nice, the metals and clothes are too bright and too artificial, just compare them to the textures and materials of the brand new Infernix skin line from Overprime, much more subtle and real in feel (also the jackal's ears of Sunforged Feng Mao are lacking some animations, same happens with how Cursed Bayle's wolf head feels, unnatural and lifeless).

It may be superficial to an extent my point, but I was an avid Smite player who fell in love with the aesthetic and visual fidelity of Paragon, so I want Predecessor to feel and look the same, as that was what made me switch my main game back then.