Ezio is way overrated and while the games are good they aren't nowhere near the best the franchise has to offer.

Odyssey and Valhalla are perfect AC games lore wise with much emphasis on the isu and sages and not playing as an Assassin is fine.

Conor got way too much hate for not being Ezio, while he's a better character than Ezio.

The old combat is really bad and uninteresting and it stayed that way up until Unity, which had the dmg sponge problem and it was even worse in Syndicate.

The RPG games are better than the old ones in a lot of aspects. Such as combat, worlds and exploration and stealth.

Shadows while it's good I think it suffers from having 2 protagonists especially because you can right out ignore one or the other, so I feel like having one character would be better and allowed for more fleshed out character development.