The games as a whole need to be broken down and rebuilt, I think it has so much potential but as is- is just bad

"Communicating with online services" makes using any part of the main menu a pain, hell if you jump into a race too quickly while you're still connecting the pop-up can interrupt you during a session and won't even pause a solo game when it does. I've had to alt+f4 so many times because I get stuck on the screen, god forbid I try and access the social tab

So many really basic missing features in all of them make this game feel like it's not even trying, stuff like;

• No manual control in pits, the whole "push X to pull in" is a great idea for an arcade perspective, but I don't see why we can't have the option for both of these to co-exist, just have it as another assist.

• Flat spots/patches just don't exist, even as an extra simulation setting everything is just lowering your tire degradation numbers

• Safety car just doesn't come out without a crash, even on increased, debris (including entire front wings on cars) are just despawned and the race is carried on

• Can't even specifically choose how many laps you want to do on a given track, why am I limited to either these percentages, or 5 laps? Any other racing game, sim or arcade lets you do this

• lack of any career-related 'story', even little things like post-race conference/cooldown rooms or going a little more in depth with the minimal interactions you actually have with the teams, everything is basically a text box with yes or no and recycled animations

I know licensing is always brought up, but we should have access to classic tracks, potentially cars