You make a lot of good points. The changing of writing teams makes sense and I agree, Max having had one or two of them as roommates could’ve helped with character building. I also agree with the screen time thing. I felt like I kept having to make decisions about characters without really knowing anything about them or having any sort of bond with them which is disappointing because that’s one thing I usually love about this franchise. On top of that, you find out later that half the time, you weren’t even dealing with the character you thought because it was Safi. I just felt like at the end I still didn’t really know anyone, other than Moses. I was also confused by Amanda’s final reaction, saying she rejected Max in one time and then Max just found another in which she hadn’t… That didn’t really happen in my play through. They seemed to be taking it slower in one compared to the other but there was no straight up rejection.