First off. Genshin Impact did not create gacha games bozos. It merely showed that more ambitious projects and genres were profitable and worthwhile to make. The only "clone" part of this game is how familiar the UI feels and the fact that it's Open World with Gacha. Something that XC2 actually did quite similarly in 2017 granted that's not exactly open world but it was there.

It pretty much takes everything I like from Genshin and pretty much gets rid of the stuff I didn't like. So... It's great. For me at least. The combat is more enjoyable, relic/echo farming is much better, the story is just as serviceable if not better than Genshins at 1.0 and the world is also on par with Genshins, I like both for different reasons.

While the overall feel of the games is the same this is just preferable over Genshin to me. I even felt a bit nostalgic for Genshin while playing so I went to play and I just couldn't I got so bored. Just didn't feel as fun.

Regarding the launch, I literally had 0 issues since day 1 so... I can't comment on any bugs or glitches.