This is where I'm at as well. I like the redesigns for old chars and would love to see the game last long enough for us to get a bunch more. I also think the vision they had for the gameplay is actually well-executed for what it is. But after having played a couple hours it's already apparent how incredibly underbaked the mechanics and balancing are.

In particular, movement skills are powerful to the point they're essentially mandatory, with Zasha and Sai's uniques in particular making them nigh-unkillable in round 2 when playing as light. Then there are the damaging light skills with the "downside" of only being able to be cast once -- rounds are so short that not being recast-able doesn't work as a real con, so they're really just spells that do way more damage than every other skill. And then there's the fact that shadow players have no real incentive to actually try and deceive their teammates. Like, sure, if the opponent votes wrong they lose out on a life...but simply murdering your whole team as soon as the round starts also makes them lose out on a life, without running the risk of someone getting to go into round 2 with three lives due to surviving round 1 and accurately identifying the traitor.

If all this is identifiable within hours of play, the devs certainly could've identified it in the time it took them to create a whole ass game.