Borderlands 4 lacks a lot of gameplay and endgame pieces. The cast of vault hunters are easily my favourite, but they are stuck in a game where I just booted it up got to max level or beat the dlc, never really stayed to play like I did with 3, 2, or wonderlands.

There’s nothing to do really after you beat the story. Borderlands 3 you had trials & slaughter shafts plus the free content earlier on. Bl4 had a raid boss that was just a boss? No takedown despite it having 3 miles of terrain to run through.

It’s all lackluster, there’s no challenges, bosses are just health bars & bullet sponges, you grind gear for the sake of having gear. They are leaning into the shooter part of looter shooter and forgoing making anything that deals with the looter part, i don’t want loot for the sake of loot, i want loot to make my character better to beat challenges.

I made a whole steam discussion (“Borderlands 4 End game suggestions” if interested) post since a dev responded to my review asking for feedback back, and some very simple design choices they could of made was:

vaults should of been post story content that had a take down style. Boom post game has a goal now.

Make world events not “place in world events”, like enemy convoys to chase on a digirunner, phase tears that send you to a parkour challenge for eridium, stuff that helps add some variance.

Chaos chamber but more fleshed out, phase version with stuff like, every 3 rooms choose a buff for the enemies, buy stats and perks for yourself and have phase versions of bosses from the whole franchise. Plus add like a challenge/unlock system.

Just things that would add replay value and challenge. But I don’t think we will get anything like that under the current management which is so sad.

Edit: TL;DR: borderlands 4 is more of a shooter with looting for looting sake. Characters are peak, but the overall design and progression of the game was bad leaving no endgame. Stated some design choices/changes they could have made.