well, I mean it clearly worked for people, so hey
I just personally didn't want what I felt was just Wild World 1.5 after having already spent so much time on that game. Didn't help that I found the majority of City Folk's new stuff (items excluded) to be rather mediocre at best, and outright bad at worst. Also, I'm still salty to this day about them removing the best new feature from Wild World (villager portraits).
But yeah, that aside, I think the other main reason why I'm worried about following New Leaf too closely, is that while I love the game, playing it for as much as I have has really shown me what I'd consider its flaws.
I think somewhat simply put, that while New Leaf is absolutely amazing for the creativity aspect of Animal Crossing, the personality of the game has suffered tremendously compared to the others before it imo. Not even just talking stuff like cranky villagers not really being jerks anymore, but even how the game overall presents itself with stuff like most all the notable buildings being regulated to main street and special NPCs being mostly locked into a single area. It just ends up feeling rather sterilized, I'd say.
Though at least in the case of Main Street, they could hopefully ease up some on that. Since that was clearly done to give players more space in their towns for PWPs. But Animal Crossing Switch should hopefully not have to worry as much about that, as the system should be able to handle larger towns.
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