I liked GTA V enough that I played it repeatedly, 100%ed it in the 2nd run. I also liked RDR enough to play it repeatedly, 100%ed in the 2nd run. Coming to the topic, I absolutely didn't like RDR2; the open world stuff was ok enough that I had >50% completion, but I didn't like the people, thought the mission design was abysmal, and the story also didn't keep me interested. (In general we knew how the story of the gang would end, and specifically the end of the protagonist was spoilered for me, he dies, again.) Think I left it in the third chapter (of ten?), but admittedly a fair judgement would be above 3/10.

wow, I never expected anyone to say that about gta V. Imo the story is one of the best, rockstar really outdone themselves with the attention to details. I think some players only expected gta to be an action game with no rules, when in reality they put a lot more effort in the worldbuilding and characters. You had to wait to shoot Stretch  because the story progressed naturally from Lamar idolizing him to the betrayal.

its easy to think of some desirable behavior, but since it is maliciously compliant, its also important to think of the ways that the behavior might occur when you don't want it to. Some behavior could be useful in one case, but annoying in several other cases.

This is a pretty big feature, and people have been talking about it since the A23 days calc  would’ve been added by now