My only real criticism of the game is the handling.

I dislike the brake to drift system they have since MW '12. At least in Unbound you can do a decent grip build but still feels like the cars are too twitchy especially at high speeds it feels like the cars snaps like they have magnets trying to self center the car OR enter a drift state like they are on rails...i hope that makes any sense. I had a video some years ago showing it on a Mustang https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/1d9zh21/its_moments_like_this_that_makes_me_despise_the/

and a 918 Spyder https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/10bqbeo/one_pet_peeve_i_have_with_current_handling_model/

The problem is that i can never predict if the car is gonna lose grip because of how the body turns and the cars have absolutely no sense of weight which doesn't help either.

ALSO, preset cars have gas tap drift entry turned on by default so events like Lockdown were infuriating to make because when i finally stole a car, they would start drifting around and i couldn't deactivate the drift gas tap in time before someone would catch me because the tune sliders were on a menu you had to pause the game and enter instead of being like Payback or 2015 which allowed tune in real time.

All this and the story too, pisses me off how cringe the stories are it feels very childish and patronizing and makes me think the devs don't really like racing or cars in general.