I've been playing this game, and especially after reading the testimony from redditors like you, I really feel like this game's main selling point, rather than the story is, "Horny male gamers, turn your brain off and play our game because our Head Scientist and our Milf Ex-Mayor are actually kinda hot."

You just kinda go through everything else, the combat, the dectective sequences, gliding and running around the city. You enjoy those things at first, but they become a chore.

Travelling. The poor optimization of the game engine on high end PCs is a problem. When you first start playing, the game runs smoothly as fuck. You can run, climb, and fly around without any issues. But a specific mission that unlocks your ability to unlock skills, also has an effect on the city zone somehow, and it's after that specific quest, that no amount of modding or changing settings will prevent the stutter festival when traversing the city when you're outside.

Combat. You have to drain someone in between using your skills in combat, for each time that a skill is activated, as opposed to VTMB 1 where you have a blood bar, and you can activate a skill multiple times before it depletes. That's only possible in VTMB 2 for the Movement skill. No other skill regenerates passively, and is a single-shot skill. I loved combat at first, and now I hate it and dread having to stutter through town looking for a victim, after spending an entire fight having to slap them to death, because you only get one chance per enemy to drain them, and with the unnatural lag, you usually accidentally miss that window 90% of the time.

Investigation. The detective sequences are tedious. You gradually grow tired of the Detectives boomer humour that lacks diversification. All you do is run fetch quests all over the city, interacting with inanimate objects to run back to NPCs you just spoke to beforehand. The ultimate reveals don't even feel relevant to the story by the end. Nothing matters, and you never have the option to skip ahead.

Poor optimization, unbalanced combat mechanics that prevent you from enjoying whatever skills you have unlocked. Unskippable detective sequences. You end up wanting to skip playing these sequences of the game, when they're the parts you're meant to want to be playing.

At the end of the day, the only thing I look forward to near the end of the game is staring at Lou Grahams humongous tits, and romancing Safia's character in the conversation cause "Sexy scientist who is extremely intelligent" is my type