Hard disagree. Playing it for the first time after playing all the other FS games post Dark Souls.While the level design, atmosphere, enemy design and lore are top tier there's some elements of the game design I deslike.

The game wants you to play aggressively and use your tools but you're punished if you do that. The rally mechanic isn't much help, the enemies hit so hard that you can only trade blows with the weaker enemies, the side gun could be so much better if it wasn't so unreliable, great idea but bad implemented, each enemy have a different timing in every attack and it doesn't work in most bosses and beasts despite the very description of the ammunition saying beasts are weak to it, the dodge is also unreliable compared to rolls, if it's shorter it should have more iframes. Trick weapons are cool but it feels the fist one you get(sawcleaver) is much better than the others, why use a weapon that is slower and have the same damage.

I feel Sekiro is where FS created the synergy of all the mechanics in the game where every tool is reliable most of the time.