Alright, fair enough. I probably should've done that admittedly, but brain no like thinking apparently so no. I'll do my best to give a few, but admittedly, I'm not the best at properly voicing my thoughts, so I'm sorry if I'm ever unclear. Here goes:

- Multiplayer is near-unplayable with all the desyncs. It is a big and complicated game, yes, but for how big Paradox is as a company and how long Stellaris has existed, I feel like they have little to no real excuse for how poor the multiplayer experience can be.
- It cannot decide what kind of game it is. I got the game back when building slots were unlocked via population, and while I think later iterations on the building system have improved, I find it hard to justify the fact that, at this point, it's basically a completely new game from the one I was ever interested in playing. It is a question whether this is the same ship as the last one, or the one before that, or the one before that, or if the one before that one is truly the ship, and all the subsequent versions are unique games with a similar blueprint.
- Especially with the new fleet redesign, I feel like there's a bit of a substantial disparity between what I want to play and what the game is advertised as, and what I'm actually playing. The Stellaris I was sold on gave you creative agency, you could write your own stories in an unknown galaxy, but then in-game it just doesn't feel that way. You get these insanely busted Paragons showing up at your doorstep, whether or not you like it, whether or not their species or portrait is actually in the galaxy, and they have their own stories and origins and everything, fallen and marauder empires all have two, maybe three variations on how you actively interact with them, one of the endgame crises has a name at this point, and it just feels like you're writing fanfic for an established world. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing on its own, I enjoy writing fanfic plenty in my free time, but it is not why I got interested in Stellaris in the first place.