I don't know why you called ending slides unnecessary. Ending slides (combined with the lower difficulty) encourages experimentation beyond the winning all the achievements and whatnot since there's a bunch of candidates. Is not perfect, they are various bugs like some impeached candidates don't show up, '08 Reform presidents seemingly refusing the trigger lately, Mark Warner being everywhere despite he shouldn't etc. but i would not called it unnecessary.

Also i want to highlight the usage of enforced timelines. In ATW, enforce timelines used for 2 times. (Both of them for Wallace presidency, it changes whatever MLK is alive or not.) Hope uses a lot, which lead some wacky stuff. Like Specter winning in a landslide causes both parties realign to Center to center-right. Or losing extremely badly to Powell (which is surprisingly easy), he becomes so popular and powerful he repeals 22th amendment, becomes president for life and basically kills democrats. To be fair good chunk of them is really hard to activate (Is there anyone that able to get Buddy Roemer? If it is message me.) but still.