I agree with everything said. I recently finished the game on Switch 2 (cost $23 using the upgrade).
Overall I thought it was a good game.
For me the some pet peeves were the map basically showed you everything, icons galore, Merlin trials etc. You could turn that off, but then you also turn off the markers for the main quests too. Not sure why they didn't separate the two, and maybe I didn't see it on the settings.
Agree that lots of things were just busy work that didn't amount to anything, and also, even if you reached the goal of getting the Merlin Trials you needed there were still more in the world so it made little sense to be a completionism because they had more than the actual final assignment needed.
Also the Hogwarts map 3D was not good, very hard to find anything, not sure why you couldn't spin it (or maybe I missed that too).
And finally, a more diverse landscape. Everything and everytown lookd exactly alike, there were no other biomes.