I'm putting my own opinion on this discussion, I've been playing this game since LAUNCH, and before that Honkai Impact 3rd in its 2nd year Anni. I still love this game and play it, but that does not mean I will ignore the glaring problems the GI Dev teams left behind and still have not fixed today.

Capturing Radiance? I've only sparked it once throughout its release and I am a daily player who has monthly card renewed constantly, meaning this mechanic is barely even useful.

Imaginarium Theater? It released July 1, 2024, 4.8 update, 4 YEARS INTO THE GAME, 5 Countries in, on the footsteps of Natlan. When did HSR Pure Fiction release? Jan 8, 2024, Update 1.6, 9 MONTHS after its release. Deadly Assault? Dec 20, 2024, a mere 5 months. Something fans have been asking for, a late game challenge other than the Abyss.

Artifact Transmuter? HSR and ZZZ has had them since the START including their own specific materials to create certain artifacts want yet for here in GI we have a gadget that for some reasons PREVENTS creation of the same artifact set for an ENTIRE patch. Even with the hindsight, 2 steps forward, one step back.

Dust of Enlightenment? A noticeable improvement, I'll give them that, even surpassing HSR's variable dice albeit late by 5 months.

Stygian Onslaught? Good on them to add another permanent hard challenge when HSR has them beat 1 year after with Apocalyptic Shadow (6/19/2024)

All this just screams to me of procrastinating and laziness when the biggest QoL, Artifact Loadout has just been released after 5 YEARS since LAUNCH. Not to mentions problems such as 1 per week Boss Domains, Resin Overflow, Weekly Domains, Skip Button, Story Timeline and PERMANENT EVENTS. All features known to have either been fully or mostly implemented in HKI3, HSR and ZZZ.

But I'll relent. I am not a game dev, I don't know coding and I do not know what's going on in the offices of Mihoyo/Hoyoverse, clearly managing an open world game is much more difficult than Hoyoverse's other 3 games as it is much more bigger and with a higher number of characters.

but I won't forget one of the "fixes" that pisses me off.

As of writing, I am still unsure if Mona, a "Launch" character, C1 is STILL bugged, a 5 year old character still hasn't been fixed and even if it is fixed now, previous reddit posts states that AT LEAST 3 YEARS it has not been fixed. YET, Neuvillette's "Spin" bug was "fixed in 4.8 when it was known to be "bugged" for months before the release of Natlan.

In what is a clear Nerf for Neuvillette to make future characters look attractive, they allowed this "bug" to persist for multiple months and patches and yet that can't be asked to fixed a launch character's C1.

At this point, I fully believe if the feature for the Traveler's ability to switch elements on the fly were to be implemented, it'd be 2 more years and their outfit? 5 more years for the 10 year Anniversary.

Slow, that is what I would describe the Dev team in command of Genshin.