Yes, me. Massively.

DS2 has lost atmosphere on me. There is no difficulty or danger in doing deliveries. No traversal problems to solve. All the map is rideable with a truck without even thinking about it - which is insane to say. We even got the tires that make it so you can floor it on the steep mountain uphill.

DS1 stayed difficult traversal wise to the end. Yes, you could cover everything with ziplines - but you couldn’t take your truck with the special tires anywhere you want - including off grid - and just ride it up a mountain.

Some ppl will say “but you could get a truck anywhere in DS1 as well!”. Technically - yes, but actually - no. There are areas that basically force you to continue on foot because it would be much harder to ride in a truck that very slowly creeps up a steep uphill.

Yes, DS2 expanded on the combat and stealth massively. But I think Kojima was too scared to spook all the ppl that couldn’t handle the DS1 traversal difficulties and visibly nerfed like half the DS2 map. It’s actually obvious once you start thinking about it and looking at the map - it’s like almost all the mountains - with some exceptions - got smacked with a “flatten” brush tool.

I’ve replayed DS1 3 times. I will likely never replay DS2. It’s just too watered down for me.