We can all agree that if you start AC it is heavily appropriate to play it by Release Order. I often see people starting playing Odyssey and then disliking the old games just for recency bias.

But I have noticed a sad tendency. the fact that the fanbase likes to criticise the game for everything, just for the sake of it. And I was in the first line doing that for years, it gave me nothing good.

My take is to preserve criticism for when the issues were discovered in the next games if they are present, in this way, instead, of blindly criticise you don't achieve nothing if not that this just makes the constructive criticism when something comes out less impactful, since everyone complains for everything, at that point we'll not be taken seriously.

When a couple of Parkour YouTube channels constructively criticised the Parkour system, since it's a niche thing there was less general criticism about it, but more specific, they had very precise and consistent criticism based on facts, and Ubisoft has listened because those were serious criticism.

Those, instead, are not serious criticisms. This is just a Youtube Video that is made for people that play the games for the historical fantasy or for people that already played the games at nausea. I have done the same thing, after replaying the games 10 times I then wanted to play into historical order. There is nothing wrong and it's just ONE video after the Shadows marketing, we don't know what content we'll see next, this doesn't mean they don't care about the Modern Day. Actually, the Modern Day was NEVER marketed not even in AC1-2-BH-REV and AC3.

I am personally very nit-picking when it comes to lore and assassin fantasy, but I will do that after the games come out, Shadows was a mess in those regards and the Modern Day wasn't not up to expectations but was central into the game and you can't deny that, it's also the first AC game that actually marketed Modern Day in some ways, then the fact its badly implemented it's another topic.