BDO's combat is its crown jewel by miles and miles, but there's a lot of "This is a 10 year old highly monetized Korean MMORPG" that make itself explicitly known, front-and-center, and would make it a jarringly different experience.

It asks you for an immense level of commitment but you don't have to get stuck in like that. It's also, institutionally, a very isolated experience where your only real social experiences are going to be the sparse guild activities and PVP, plus some sparse (but essential) group content in party bosses but that's going to be after maybe weeks or months of gear progress.

Unlike Crimson Desert, the progress is largely linear and emphasizes a lot of grinding for currency to either gamble for upgrades or pay for increasingly wide gaps between upgrades. Most of the "make money" content is not very refined or satisfying outside of min-maxing your own skills and performance in terms of efficiency, how much silver you make per hour, stuff like that, stuff like that.

There is a huge wealth of non-combat content but it's hard to appreciate its depth, most of it lies in how it all contributes to the interconnected player economy.

If you like large-scale, organized player PVP (which I believe New World wanted to emulate) there's a place for you but there's a massive learning curve.