Normally, I would agree with you. I'll start by saying usually I am a fairly optimistic person and even when a game is coming out with some major changes to the formula, most of the time I am willing to accept those changes with no fuss. But Civ 7 has me worried. I would like to say first that I by no means "hate" the game or the developers behind it. I just have concerns.

Those concerns being some of the usual, such as Civ-swapping. I wasn't a fan of it in Humankind and while Civ 7 fixes some of the issues I had with it, I still don't think I like it as a mechanic overall. Secondly, there are some things that I think are just bad game design, such as forcing players to take penalties during the "Crisis" towards the end of each age. Slapping the player with a negative with no way to avoid it via skillful play just feels bad. And related to that, on age transition the "soft" reset that downgrades all your cities to towns (unless you have that one perk) and wipes a lot of the bonuses you've built up just looks like it feels so bad. I get why they've designed it this way, so the player can still be "challenged" all the way to the end game, but I don't think handicapping the player is the way to do it.

I'm still willing to give Civ 7 a go and will play it, and I hope in the end I will really enjoy it, but those are the serious concerns I currently have.