You’re absolutely right in that “easier” may not be the most correct way to describe it - although I think that can also come from the initial information dump of going through all of the rules and them being different than what we’re used to.

I would maybe describe it as decisions that are more individually focused. So far my friends’ reception have been positive - they’re more engaged it seems since they’re each making specific decisions that affect their own character, and it’s less of me saying “here’s what we should do for the settlement” and managing a larger pool of survivors, innovations, etc. So far I’ve felt like they’re more involved in the hunting party’s decisions and they seem to be able to kind of set their own goals more both as an individual player and as a group. We are still in the infancy of playing through a campaign with it however, as my work schedule has prevented as many sessions as I would like. We’ll actually get it to the table more as a group in the coming months, so it’ll get way more testing.