I think for many (myself included), this is going to be the straw that broke the poor camel's back.
I started with the GT series relatively late, but with GT4 I had an absolute blast playing it, goodness knows how many hours I put into that. GT5, while not on a par overall with GT4, has still provided me with some bitter-sweet memories; foremost among them being the Seb Vettel challenge, which took me close to a year until I got gold on all 3 tracks, with an ageing DS3.
With GT6, it's just felt utterly lack-lustre. The constant focus on catch-the-rabbit races got incredibly tiring, the only serious competition from the AI coming from the kart races, and the removal of shuffle racing was quite a bitter pill to swallow. What kept me going up to a point was the on-line time trials, the insanity of some of the VGT's... and the prospect of the ever-delayed course maker.
Now, it's here, out of the blue. I wasn't expecting huge improvements from GT5's edition, but certainly something that could keep me entertained for a few weeks or so. Instead, they've gone and told us, after goodness knows how many months of waiting in forlorn hope,
it's not a feature we can use in-game, on the system said game was designed for. What in the flying 🤬 is that all about?!
Sure, I can appreciate the thought of having it out there as an option for more delicate/creative track designing, but to completely exclude it as an in-game option... it beggars belief. And in that regard, I completely agree with Imari, it's a slap in the face to those of us who have waited this long. What an utter shambles. I can see them hastily putting something together from the old GT5 CM as a way of apology...
I'll give it 1 month to see what PD can salvage from this mess, but likely as not I'll end up purging GT6 from my system, put a dust blanket over my PS3, and look for pastures new. Maybe Project Cars/Assetto when they're on discount, the new NFS doesn't look half-bad either...
/rant