If people genuinely believe that the game design in this title is good then god help us all.
The Witcher 3 had some godawful game design and its praised as GOTG by a lot of people (won that title here on GAF too), even the story wasn't all that either. In fact, similar things can be said about a lot of ultra praised titles.
Now i ask, why does things like horrible crafting systems, legendary items dropping like fish from the sky in Honduras, or open world that doesn't work more than a background suddenly matter here, when those
exact same issues also existed in The Witcher 3 but almost no one would point them out?