I played it a bit today after having it preordered on Steam (I usually never preorder, but you can probably guess why I did it this time) and then asked for my first refund ever on the platform.
To be honest it hasn't really been a suffered decision. I went through the first hour of the game and I wasn't really feeling it.
Probably my mistake in the first place, since I never loved the previous ones that much and I (wrongly) expected this to improve in all these things I didn't like in the past.
Turned out I was wrong and it felt really similar to the old titles: clumsy controls, underwhelming gunplay, dull AI and a lot of overly linear sections with scripted sequences and exposition every few minutes.
I was almost tempted to stick with it and go on, but I watched a bunch of review and basically all of them hammered over and over how the three new "large areas" are more an exception than the rule to the overall pacing of the game, and it tends to progress rather linearly most of the times.
Of course, most reviewers somehow insisted that "it's a very good thing and keeps the story focused". Too bad that personally it's something I never liked much about the series and this definitely isn't the "break from the past" I was expecting and hoping for.
I just wasn't having fun with it.