I agree with everything you said. The "new player experience” made me lose any hope the game can recover. I’ve been researching and trying out other Web 3 games on other chains for a couple months now.
The whole ecosystem is an unbelievable mess at this point. There are now several half-baked projects that just sort of exist. A soccer game, Soulkeep, Nodes, Land, Moon Karts, Arcade Colony. Did I forget any?
I don't want to be negative, but the direction is very tone deaf to its past and thinning current player base. It's terrible business when things are hanging on by a thread.