I absolutely love this game buuut there are a lot of things that bug me coming from new leaf
NPCs!! This is a common one but there are so many missing, it makes me sad! I loved Reese & Cyrus, Luna, Resetti, Lyle, Redd (!!), Kicks, Lief, and so many more! where did they all go!
No more art in the museum, I love art irl and loved collecting familiar pieces!
lack of buildings! I hate this one especially... NL had club LOL (which I miss especially, where's Shrunk? and KK just shows up every Saturday? that's lame!), the police station, the cafe (I REALLY miss this one
), the separate shops for Kicks and Lief, and more. I get why they merged them for convenience, but I still miss them!
and overall, just a lack of stuff to 'unlock.' In NL (at least for me) it took forever to get every building and everything upgraded all the way (like shampoodles, club LOL, the cafe, upgrading the museum, upgrading Nook's Cranny, etc etc etc) and it was always exciting after playing for a good while and being like oh! a new thing! but it only took me 2 weeks to get terraforming (and I don't time travel) and there doesn't seem to be much to unlock after that. Of course designing my island is super fun and there are still things like fish and bugs to collect, but I don't feel like I'm working towards anything anymore... I suppose a 5 star rating, but then what after that?
this sounds like a lot but I still really love this game!! LOTS of big improvements especially with terraforming and proper paths, but there are still some things I really miss.