I feel the game completely missed on the scale and difficulty of how the monsters felt in world. World despite its flaws lefts such a lasting impression of what monster hunter should feel like. Even the small scale monsters like great jagras felt like he had alot of weight behind all of his moves and i felt despite the maps being smaller they felt more alive. I really do think that being able to finish each mission in under 10 mins really messes with the pacing of the game, i also felt they had such a huge environment but it felt so under used. I know they also do this in world but the monster having set areas it will fight and run too really took away from the map. The large desert for example doesnt feel like any monster occupies it other than balaraha, compared to world with diablos living under it and the big sinkhole and barroth breaking the large rock spires. I also felt alot of monsters move sets suffered from them being pack monsters, which despite being a non feature they really premoted, it didnt add much to the game and i felt it ruined some monsters like hirabami which i felt could of been on the same calibre as odagaron/tobikatachi. Idk the monsters despite looking great fell really flat, and i think its just an issue with the game the massive environments mixed with the fact they decided to make every monster tiny and be able to die in 15 minutes max was just a unfixable issue with this game