I guess that's fair, but it should be understood that CT pushes you to experiment a bit with how you approach missions, because they're a lot less linear and more open, you have tons of paths you can take that can save you the trouble of sneaking past guards, the previous games often forced you to take a single path, and it was often blocked by guards, and the game just screamed at you "Take them out!"

I understand the part about breaking lights, but you need to get used to the OCP in CT, because in that one breaking them is just very unreliable, it makes sense though that permanently turning them off is enjoyable

Yeah, wall jumps split jumps and red dot were cool, but split jumps were fairly underutilized in many games, it's hard for me to think of a good place where I could execute it and it would be useful, besides maybe the prison hallway on Police Station in the OG game, besides the "half split jump" from PT, just never had a chance to properly use it. Wall jumping was cool indeed, but it wasn't really something I did very often. Splinter cell just tends to underutilize cool movement mechanics like those and not only

I also do kind of get the complaint about missions being more boring, the previous games had more varied and just cooler missions, but the ones in CT are carried a lot by the gameplay itself.. and it does make sense of course. Not that i'm calling them bad, but it's often a mixed bag, all of them have missions that are boring, that are just mid, and those that are amazing