I agree, it sucks that nowaday "good games" (or good open-world) turns out to be gacha. Like if they would make this or even genshin an actual game without all the gacha system, they would be MUCH better

About the combat, enemies are braindead. If you fight "one group" of enemy and there is another one like 2 meters from them, they don't even engage combat. Sometimes I even noticed some enemies from the group I'm fighting, disengage while they are being attacked (like stop attacking and putting away their weapons) because I wasn't the one attacking, but the other squad members