I remember playing this years ago and really prefering it to the original Candy Crush. The game officially stayed its welcome on my phone for a grand total of 4 days before getting uninstalled.
This is such a nothing game : when I play this, I feel like I'm playing sludge. Everything is screaming at you to buy more and more to make your experience easier and more satisfying but there's nothing satisfying about getting arbitrarly stuck on a level just cause the RNG gave you a bad shuffle for you to spend your bonuses on or finishing 30 levels in 15 minutes with basically 3 turns each cause the game just overloads you with special candy to the point where the game basically plays itself. Why even bother playing at this point ?
Also the game just keeps annoying you with all of these random events and social aspects to just beg you to keep playing more and more.
Going from Bejeweled Classic to this is day and night. Still putting ONE star for the level gimmicks and mechanics themselves which, even though the basis is ripped out of Bejeweled, at least the game has so many level gimmicks and special types of candy that I think you could actually make a decent puzzle game with all of these, but that game wasn't what I played.

This was the one CC game I actually liked. The variety of level types and updated artwork (compared to the original) were appealing, and it was nice as a casual thing to play on the side. Unfortunately the monetization got really painful, to the point where it was hard to progress at all without spending, and also the constant popups about buying the gold bars was really annoying. Then when I tried to go back, it turned out the company had made a bunch of changes to "downsize" the game so to speak, resulting in a lot of the fun small touches I liked being now removed. Not planning to go back again at this point, but it was fun for a while.