Came to say exactly this.

You could watch best friends play. They dont make new content but if you havent seen any of it there is plenty to watch. Sad they are gone though

While the moment to moment gameplay feels better (subjective I know) the design choices for the menus and leveling are completely backwards as far as improvements. Ui suffers from modern ui problems of just being poorly designed and having way to many tabs because icons and banners are so big. The xp coming only from challenges discourages team objective play as people are better of chasing challenges to level rather than complete the mission. And lastly, but probably the biggest issue, is always requiring online to play. Having to matchmake to play solo is horrid. Lagging while playing solo is embarrassing. They should take these server issues as a lesson and completely reverse this design choice because its clearly already showed why it wasn’t a good idea to begin with from day 1. Disappointing is an understatement they completely dropped the ball.

Ive started mgs5 3 different times and shortly after getting to africa i check out. shame.

Love that vid and Tehsnakerer. Big ups for a solid recommendation.