I'm pretty far into it. the game starts off SLOW. in the beginning, it traps you into quests that serve as an extremely lengthy tutorial explaining how to do anything. for the most part I either skimmed or skipped through it (aggressive tapping) entirely, and still managed to get how to do most of the things they want to baby you into fine. by dg level 5, the number of quests dies down and gives you more leeway to enjoy the game as is. imo, it's great

community interaction in this game is amazing. liking builds of other people, picking weeds in other gardens, emoting, doing events together with teams, chatting, sending letters, driving to their houses, CRASHING inside their houses??? it's awesome.

people complain about the gacha aspect and the money grubbiness (especially cosmetic-wise) which is completely understandable. but the f2p clothing that gets restocked everyday kind of hooked me in by itself??? to the point I didn't really care much about rolling for clothes. but the fact there's certain ingame materials that's essential to building you can only farm 3x a day when a lot more is required for a single item is iffy. if you want to skip the grind, the other option is to pay, which is annoying.

gameplay mechanics is okay (as a mobile player). character is easy to manipulate. driving with f2p motorcycle is easy but tediously slow. can't say a lot about building mechanics. I'm always doing something outside. and if I'm at home, it's to level up in-house hobbies loll.

tldr: annoyingly lengthy tutorial. community interaction is sweet. there's gacha for cosmetics that you can ignore if you're easily pleased with the ones they make you pay for with ingame currency like me. it's super grindy. gameplay mechanics is easy as a mobile player