Ive always had a neutral attitude to gambling, Im not into it but its fine if people do it responsibly. But with all these ads from phone gambling apps, it’s seems like an aggressively predatory relationship between the casinos and gamblers and offer only lip service response to gambling addiction. I now am very firmly against further legalization of gambling and think that advertising should be illegal.
“Really poorly” is a tad hyperbolic. The game certainly has aged and you can tell how paper thin many of the gameplay features are. But, I think the core gameplay is still pretty solid and you definitely do have an assortment of options in how you approach objectives and plenty of freedom in exploring the world