I think it has potential, and more choice isn't a bad thing. It will be interesting to see how it goes up against the more established DE's once is has launched.
Definitely agree, it feels like the start of something really really promising.
Football Manager is weirdly comforting to me, there's just something about losing hours upon hours to what is really just a very good spreadsheet.
I'd love to see some of the bots you'd see on sports subreddits, things like a Match Thread updating with live scores, substitutions etc, without a mod having to do all that work themselves.
It feels like Gamefreak has really struggled to appeal to the various different sets of fans post Gen 5, I wonder how much of the hand holding and other issues are a reaction to the backlash gen 5 sadly got.