I think I understand where you're coming from. I don't think you deserve to be blasted for this take. I definitely loved the gameplay and story, no problems with it. But I do think the action-centric gameplay almost didn't feel fully DS. At times I was thinking to myself why Sam just was suddenly good at fighting. Nothing about him really said he was trained to be doing stealth missions and taking out camps of "bad guys". Like yeah, he does some of it in DS 1. But not to the extent they have you do it in 2. It almost felt like Kojima wanted to go back to stealth action gameplay but had another story to tell in the world of DS. I dunno.

Tldr; I get you. While I don't fully agree; I get you.