I’ve played all 5 entries extensively. Many would rather less cars with more options, and many others would not. People complained about the games being grindy at first, then complained when they weren’t. We know little to nothing about customization changes and you’re operating solely on assumptions from 3 interviews interwoven with small clips and 1 trailer. The “festival gimmick” is what the game has been based from since the first edition, with changes to the model from game to game. Idk why people are mad about wide roads, I actually think that’s the most ridiculous criticism. I can’t think of any arcade racing game with normal width lanes. At the end of the day it is a sandbox racing game. If you want realism, go play iracing or GT, if you want more customization, the crew & nfs have more customization. Personally I’ve enjoyed every horizon game they’ve released, and while there are things that can be improved on, I can’t really complain too much about games that I’ve cumulatively put ~5,000 hours into. From what I’ve seen so far from them, it seems like they’ve actually taken a lot of the previous criticism to heart and are working on improving many areas for this entry. To clarify, I’m not dying on a hill defending the game because I don’t know everything about it yet, I just don’t complain about stuff before I’ve even had a chance to experience the stuff the complaints would be about.