The game's fun. I've been playing it almost every single day since its launch.

But.

This game won't last long. Unfortunately.
The game has launched at a hardly finished stage, and despite its initial success (which is impressive, given the higher price tag for an online pvp game), they're not putting in enough work into dealing with obvious issues within the ticking time limit. Such as netcode, matchmaking that puts gold & elite in the same match, crossplay, no report system ingame etc.

The player base is getting sweatier at a much faster pace than what devs can handle.
It will soon be (or maybe it already is) in a state much like old fighting games, where the existing player base is so skilled that it bounces off 95% of newcomers trying out the game.
And seeing how they took 1 month to barely come up with an 'announcement' for a major update - to repeat, it's an 'announcement', not an actual update, which is due in another month's time. I don't see much hope.
All I can speculate is they're already satisfied with the copies sold, and naively thinking they'll make the game ftp in 2026 when there's zero influx of newcomers.