While finishing off some of the Menus in single player it really stood out how bad the races against the AI are in this. Enforcing rolling starts means you're always 30-40 seconds behind the leader, which means you need a substantially faster car than the ones at the front to progress, which you can do just by applying upgrades up to the specific race limit. I wouldn't mind this so much for an arcade racer but GT is meant to be more focused on realism and it really takes you out of it.

Being so fast removes any on track battling as you whizz past on the straight as the game becomes a glorified time trial, and even then the game doesn't punish you for basically cheating and heavily cutting chicanes. This removes any nuance in the process, meaning you don't have to learn the car or track to progress.

Online is still fun though.