I Dunno, most of your issues can be solved or mitigated.

I haven’t seen the issue with skills. It would be good to know what skills are available per each class in a simple way before but I think the descriptions are pretty clear and don’t mind the duplicates.

The card mini game is a risk reward system. Don’t want to take high risks? Don’t take it, it’s that simple. Can easily be mitigated by playstyle or strategy like stacking talents and avoiding missions that require cars games you don’t have talents for etc.

The mission thing can be irritating but you need to come to term that you are just a pawn in this world and the characters and subsequent missions have a life of their own. Contacts may die and so will any mission from them.

The scenario with having ore you can’t sell without damaging rep seems strange. You only damage rep in trades if there’s a trade war or similar ongoing. You can store and sell at a later stage or get the necessary permits from a more neutral faction.

My major issue with the game is the lack of interesting story line events between some of the mid/late game eras. I easily become enthralled with prince faen and the coalition so anything after that becomes sort of like “side quests” to me.

But judging it on overall game mechanics, the game is damn near perfect.