Sorry to say this, but "honest" communication is something completely different.
Promising and promoting features that never make it into the game. suggesting much more than delivering. calling it "in a good state" while EVERY SINGLE FEATURE of this game is incomplete or not on expected game standards of today. i dont expect this to have a perfect crafting menu, but a favorite / protect button should be in there at least. i dont expect a complex subcrafting function, but at least BULK crafting should have been in there. And WHO in their right mind thought, hey we have this awesome skins for our cars and we dropped a lot of hints that you might be able to get your own clan cars, but we just give you this set of (only a handful well driving cars) ugly crap and so imbalanced, that most of you either use the best cars, or just steal them on the road. same goes for weapons btw. oh we have at least 3 skin types for every gun, but we randomized it so you cant get your fav gun. oh and the same goes for your clothing. "you like that outfit? too bad, we can only give you this super ugly crap that has mod slots to make it viable clothing ". i dont know how you want to fix that... maybe make a tailor where you can merge visual with stats of two clothing items, or give us the ability to upgrade and add mod slots into clothing.
the questline has to be a choice. when i heard some of the devs talking about "how deep and intriguing " it is.. i though, heck yeah.. what we got it the epitome of false promise. the "life" choices have literally no impact except for five mins of playing. you dont talk differently, you dont change your attitude, you only have a handful of life path related options at best. at least in GTA you could decide to either go for the bum shack or the million dollar mansion.
and the whole story arks? it is a fricking line with a single important fork for endings, which still craps over the open world aspect.
and romance, dont let us forget romance. was it really so hard to just make all four chars be romanceable with all types of body choices? isnt this what CP is about? you can be whatever you want without being judged? "oh no, you have the wrong voice module, i wont romance you". lol. what a joke.
customization.. yeah.. the false promise applies to that as well. shallow choices, most choices you have are diversions, since you actually dont really see them at all. well, you dont really see YOURSELF ingame at all. seemingly this is photo mode promotion only. no ingame shops like barbers, nails salons or beauty docs that can change features.
or right. the list wont stop. you said we can do a lot of things in NC... yeah... just look around. no interaction on most food stands, no interaction at gaming crap or most shops. no interaction with NPCs.
oh yeah.. those exists. the atrocious NPCs and the really.. "thought trough" police system.. with magically teleporting police...
i think i finish with the epitome of ignorance: forced keybinds in 2021? REALLY?! in what world do you live? even on atari games you could change buttons! and dont say "oh it was too hard", what? to add the ingame menu visuals, since seemingly we can change the "hard coded" buttons ourself by editing files?
i will leave out the bugs for now, at least the save file bricking was fixed, though there are still a lot of quests that wont vanish and are bugged..