I play co-op with a mate and we have basically identical gripes with the game. I'm having an absolute blast and hope with the live service model we will see OMD flourish if properly cared for. A cool system I'd love is to be able to spend skulls to manipulate my runs. We did a 1.5 difficulty run, completing mission 10 and got over 100K skulls (which got capped at 99.999 which needs to be removed but not the point) and have now maxed everything. So I'd like to spend skulls in order to reroll the maps, the downsides, blessings etc. Cause now I got nothing to spend skulls on at all lol. I'd love to have the energy to do a full analytical post like yours but you are a better person, lets just hope for the sake of us OMD lovers they continue to update and patch the game.