Agreed.
I also found that XIV didn’t have the same challenge or tactical feel to it. XI you had to call out your TP, plan your WS, plan your bursts, call adds, etc. And it was challenging enough that if you found someone who was good, you wanted to be around them more.
XIV felt like 90% of the time, you could just do…

Not just that it enforced grouping, it enforced grouping you HAD to do yourself.

Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde as a already put together and excellently functioning team. Have them fight the Brood.

Spoiler alert: Bruce Willis was dead the entire time in Sixth Sense and he didn’t realize it until the end.