This is still Shadow the Hedgehog, and a lot of the things people (rightfully) take issue with are still here and wouldn't really be possible to get rid of. That said all of the actually cool things in that game are also still here, and the (many) changes this mod brings do make the game a lot more manageable.

I give this mod a full star above the vanilla game. It'd have been at least a half-star over just for cutting down the last story requirements alone, even before all the other gameplay/ mission changes