I'm not sure if I just have rose-tinted glasses so I'm thinking of going back to Tsushima Director's Cut after this; I also never played the Iki Island DLC so I have that to play as well.
This game, while not bad, is is a big letdown for me. It seemed so obvious to me how you should follow-up Tsushima and they did none of those things. Instead they made essentially the exact same game again with a worse story. The only new major new combat system I've hit so far is having multiple weapons but instead of making that actually cool they just made them essentially only a visual difference from the first game's stances, since you are heavily influenced to use the appropriate weapon per enemy just like you were with the stances. Obviously what people were really expecting with multiple weapons in a Tsushima sequel was multiple weapons that each have different stances, like Nioh. Instead there was seemingly a lot of work put into mostly bad minigames.