I played 140+ hours of Persona 5 and didn't want it to end. I didn't feel like a single moment was wasted. I can't speak for the "royal" edition.
I said this somewhere else, but I actually own SMT V. I tried it for a day or two and found it overly difficult and boring. It's like Persona but with all the fun removed.
I mean I get it, if you only had fun with the life sim aspects in Persona and didn't care for the dungeon crawling then you're not going to like SMT because that's a pure dungeon crawler
Personally I found it wholly nonsensical that there's Persona life sim aspects in Metaphor. Bro's literally not a high school student in modern Japan, he's in a fantasy setting and yet he's walking around carrying a school bag while building social links and leveling up social stats. Shit makes absolutely zero sense. When I was in the Guptauros dungeon the game felt good to play because it was basically SMT but then I got back to the city and I was doing life sim shit like I'm playing Persona M and I'm like what the fuck am I doing and why am I doing this shit
Anyways I killed the Guptauros and finished the demo, I think I'm gonna shove this one off to 2025 because of Atlus RPG formula burnout. I still haven't cleared Episode Aigis yet LMAO