Because we're still sort-of in the season of forgiveness and all that, I reinstalled this for the first time in a few months just to see for myself if they'd done anything to make the game less unbearable in so many ways. All I'll say is that the only thing keeping it from being uninstalled right now is the Mitsubishi WRC05, mostly because I like that someone, somewhere, will have gone "we want to add a new car to the Rally(cross) category, how about the car Mitsubishi made after sitting out the latter half of 2004 to develop it and yet it was still so unspectacularly average its only claims to fame is taking two podiums because everyone else had crashed and how it subsequently killed Mitsubishi's involvement in top-level rallying?"
On a slightly unrelated subject, that new survey (which seems to be an unofficial thing but anyway). There's a lot of "don't care" and "don't really give a 🤬". TL;DR, race/track creator, fast travel anywhere and a set doubling the amount of bucks you make? Sure, sign me up - anything to make grinding less unbearable. I do think it's a shame they don't seem to want people's opinions on the whole "let's make Summit exclusives permanently exclusive because we hate people who don't take PvP aspects ultra-hardcore-seriously or may just be late adopters. Should've bought the game for Christmas last year, shouldn't you?", though given the results from the previous survey.. yeah, that approach isn't going to change, is it? Oh well, goodbye, Mitsubishi WRC05 - was fun seeing you in a game that's not a Gran Turismo or a 🤬 🤬 cash-grab again! Wait..
It still amuses me that, this time last year, I'd have been one of this game's most avid defenders. Wonder what it'll be like this time next year?