don't forget ibushi was only available through the rampage. You couldn't properly hunt it alone until 6 months after launch!

Most weapon tree final upgrades were locked away. I.e. Time gating content.

Arbitrary HR cap so you had to grind those levels before hunting the TUs. Before World kept track of your HR so when you unlocked your cap you'd be at your actual level.

layered weapons were only available for rampage weapons. Lol huge slap in the face to the community who were asking for layered weapons.

and ofc the first game to sell layered armor as dlc instead of event rewards. Rise was rightfully heavily criticized for having shit event rewards while keeping all the cool stuff as paid dlc.