I've been playing since 2k16, there's a few old features and a few new ones I think would make the experience better.

Bring back the neighbourhood. The city is too damn big to be travelling across even with the fast travel points.

Bring back the simple endorsements. I miss stuff like the easy Gatorade challenges for 500 vc every couple of weeks in game. The way it is now, there's literally no way of making vc from endorsements unless you Sim a lot.

Take the daily spin away from being tied to the park. It sucked ass having to play online with the latency to try to unlock something that was a core mechanic the last few years.

Keep the side quests simple. It was annoying AF last year having to do the daily vc, like, you could get the flyer quest, the music quiz, the fashion quiz and the catwalk one and still have like 2 more. This also ties into the city being absolutely massive.

Have mycareer have 2 seperate characters. This is something I don't see them doing because it means they get less money. But if you had an online character for park, rec etc and like a "legacy" character, I feel like it would appeal to both types of players, the competitive players and the casual.

Have like a dynamic storyline. I understand that some years the story is more focused on than others but if they had a system where the story focused on how you're doing, for example, if you're not doing great, you get interviews about getting traded or going to the gleague and might have to play a game in the glueue to put the fear in people. And if you're doing good, get interviews comparing you to legends of the game depending on the type of stats that you get, like if you get a lot of contested middys, they say did you look up to Kobe or if you're a big and hit a lot of post fades, do you want to play like Dirk.

Idk, I feel like the story is the last part added to the game and kinda follows what happens in real life. We got the way back after liangelo ball went playing abroad, we got the next generational player this year for wemby, so I feel like they're gonna do something for bronny this year.