The open world definitely ruined it. Anything that isn't the on foot combat shouldn't exist. The vehicular combat is fine but bizarrely enough rarely used? Outside the optional convoys and the first 5 minutes of the final mission I don't remember anything else making use of it.
Yeah the driving is so abysmal I started walking from objective to objective. The open world is literally like a list of stuff to do, one of the most pointless ever.
But then you get into a combat scenario and you're jumping around, force pushing people and blowing their legs off with that shotgun and it's so fun! But then you have to go back to the terrible driving. It's like if in Doom 2016 you had to do a Sudoku before you could shoot demons