It wasn't obvious until after the release of Splatoon 3 just how much this game offered to the overall franchise. If you dryly look at it on how it was at launch then yeah...I understand the disappointment, but i feel like this game did a lot of things right with one of them being Splatfests. I still haven't felt as excited for a Splatfest since they stopped organising them for Splatoon 2 and that majorly has to do with the implementation of the Shifty Stations and how fun even the worst ones were.