Interesting write-up. A few small points of contention, though:

I feel the same about esports as real world sports and it’s fun to play the games but watching them is like torture. I can think of nothing more frustrating, boring, mind numbing, and almost physically painful than watching other people sports. Be it real world sports or esports they both make me crazy crawl out of my…

No, its a result of intelligent design.
Weapons are everywhere. 90% of my problem in the game is having too many weapons and having to choose which ones to keep.

That is the tiniest d-pad ever.

I put it in my pocket.

Yup and what I love is that the graphic remake thingy done later by another studio was fully compatible with save importing and exporting.