yeah TBH I love that they did all these GTAO content... I dislike how grind-y and slow the balancing is...
but, progression speed aside, it's like GTA San Andreas on steroids... so many cool businesses and repeatable missions to do.
my biggest problem -- and this relates heavily to the 'progression speed' -- is that they didn't add them to SP as well.
would have been fun to do Trafficking, Gunrunning, or Heists as Trevor or CEO Cargo or Import/Export stuff as Franklin, just with 10x progress speed or something lol ;p
but... the reason why it's not added to SP is the same reason why the progression speed is such a slow grind -- gotta promote and sell Shark Cards.
so my problem has never been the design of GTAO free roam content per se, but just the way it's packaged and balanced ;/ even by MMORPG standards. progression in GTAO is slow AF... it's not even WoW speed, more like EQ speed lol (especially at least before the last few months where Double Money/-30% to -50% discounts have become much more rampant).
so, with RDR2, on one hand, I love free roam content and I love Online/MMO sand box/free roam stuff... so properties, repeatable missions, etc for RDR2 in a shared online community sounds great.
on the other hand, I'm scared as heck about RDR2 getting million dollar homesteads, wagon deliveries payouts that make MMORPGs look casual, and flying weaponized horses o.0