>>5619077I have to agree with this anon.
Been loyal to Stellaris since day 1 and played every single DLC and Patch religiously for days, sometimes weeks.
The game went from very intensive management, complex with so much imbalance but yet there was a way for you to win, you just had to become 10 times better at managing things, good luck next run and so on... when you finally started to git gud, the game reveled itself even more.
Then the following expansions dumbed the management down, balanced things around making few paths seem like the flavour of the patch and everything else just meh...
Also with every expansion they just focused on the core content of that xpac and dumbed down, ignored what was left behind...
The game lost its soul, yet it's still worth playing every DLC because of the funny things and role playing in your head.