Or they were too cheap to write new music

I only got married a few months ago and I'm 36 so yeah I did the whole single-in-his-30s thing, including hanging out with a bunch of couples.
And it SUCKS.
I would definitely choose bar/club or just staying in over that.

Based on reviews and commentary I've read, you may be in the minority of people who think Ezio NOT killing Rodrigo Borgia at the end of AC2 is a good character/story development.

The Iroquois were not a tribe, they were a confederation. There's a whole bunch of dialogue in the game about that.
Yes, nitpicky, but, whatever.

Why do they have to be either Assassin or Templar?
Fact is we don't know.

The series still had to have major events conform to real history.
If Connor or any assassin would react the way you want, he would go kill George Washington and fight to destroy the Unites States.

No, every leader you mention is not a Templar. What is revealed is that they all have Pieces of Eden. Not the same thing at all.

One of the most common complaints of the last two AC games was that they lost the large, dense urban settings with large monuments to scale.

Revelations contributed just as much as any other game to the modern story before AC3- one piece of information to Desmond and his allies.

Warren Vidic explaining some of the philosophy behind the Templars added resonance to Altair's journey. Having both assassins coming to the same understanding of their true fight, even though they're separated by 1000 years, was pretty clever, IMO.

I don't remember devs saying that, nor can I find it now.
I do not, on the other hand, have proof of a negative, because you know how that goes.

That was never confirmed or even suggested at, just an assumption made my a lot of fans.

Roger Craig Smith is the voice actor who voiced Ezio Auditore.
He also is in Black Flag as the narrator of the videos you find that explain why the previous assassins would make bad games for Abstergo. That makes it super-duper meta when he mispronounces Ezio's name and speaks poorly of him.

I agree with all of that.
It's just that it has had severely diminishing returns since then.

The series was a originally conceived as a trilogy until Ubisoft saw the money-making potential of a yearly series.
If it would have actually been a trilogy, then an over-arching modern-day story would work because, as in any decent story, you'd have a beginning, middle and end.

I know I'm probably like the only one who likes the character and story of Connor. It's easily the most tragic of all the assassins (I don't include Desmond 'cause I don't care about the modern-day story of the series at all), and I'm a sucker for that kind of Shakespearean tragedy.

alcoholoc or bigot?

Ugh.. again with the Vick nonsense… the dude went to jail for TWO FUCKING YEARS. That is, literally, the opposite of society forgiving someone.

Are "Jews" doing that as a people? Like… me?
No- that is the political entity of the state of Israel.

Well yes, exactly, that's my point- you're right, he was trying to viciously manipulate her instead of just being honest for one minute, even at the end of his life.