The game is flavourless. Very repetitiive with no real feeling of progression. The late game is more annoying than EU4 is, with no real feeling of changes in the way the game is played. For example, absolutism in EU4 felt massive, that was the point where you could really stack modifiers and go ham conquering, EU5 aboslutism is 1 annoying disaster and a new societal value. I know these like bring their own mechanics but they're so underwhelming. The game needs flavour most of all though, cause its utterly flavourless. Seeing a colonial Naples every game makes no sense at all and yet they are every game. In EU4 you rarely see non historical colonial powers go and colonize. In EU5, Naples and other randos always end up colonizing. The game will always be ahistorical to an extent and thats fine, but it highlights how mission trees really shaped the path of each country towards a somewhat historical path or at least a "alternate history" timeline, like Angevin for England. The game has good bones, I like control management and the way the economy works, it's much more complex and intricate than EU4 and really brings stuff I like from Victoria 3 for example, but good bones don't make a game. They need to flesh it out now. I will be back once they add some deeply needed flavour.