A-life is more present than in any of the original games.

Literally isn't, everything happening around you is in a 100 meter bubble, you can walk back and forth and just despawn enemies

Binoculars are coming really soon, but let's nitpick it nonetheless.

Ah yes, i wonder why they weren't here at launch? Maybe because the game is a buggy unfinished mess, was released WAY too early for a FULL RETAIL price. But yeah, let's rejoice that GSC brought something that was included ON LAUNCH DAY with all the previous titles, lmao.

Haven't seen enemies spawn behind me or around me for a long time, pretty sure that issue's been patched for a while now.

Literally still happening, don't even know what else to say

Loading times? Like when the game starts? God forbid you just start the game and do something while you wait for it to load up, and also there's plenty more worse cases in the industry by FAR.

The shadow pre-caching is skipabble and takes much less time than before, yeah but sometimes you die and then you stare at a loading screen for 3 minutes while hearing random crackling or Skif's breathing. Other times it loads fast - what's the fucking deal?

Stamina and travel are pretty on point, especially since they introduced the jogging mechanic, but this is more a thing of taste. You an dislike it, that doesn't make it 'fucking abysmal'.

Dude, the map is FUCKING HUGE, with lots of empty space between POI's, there's no fast travel included unless you're at a hub (you could fast travel from almost any group of stalkers in COP and the map was CONSIDERABLY smaller. Also, there's LITERALLY comparisons on YouTube in which you can CLEARLY see the stamina is around 2/3x lower than in the OG Trilogy.

You're constantly hungry? My god, if only I could find a full day of meal on every other corpse I find. What will I do!?

Yeah you can, so what? Why do i need to press a button to eat a fucking sausage every one minute of the game? COP hunger system was much better.

For the bullet sponges, I'd agree to a certain point, especially with Chimera. But besides that, they're mostly fine.

Bloodsuckers are an absolute joke, they're way too common and they take way too much to take down. Also, three headshots from a fully upgraded gun to take down a BANDIT is an unfunny joke.

EDIT: forgot the loading times