Got it a day early so I've had some time with it.
It seems like it doubles down the choices World made the franchise, both good and bad. The additions to weapon movesets are mostly great and the monster design is fine enough.
Monsters need a significant speed and damage buff as has been the case with low and high rank in the past couple of games. In the early game, you need to be really careless in order to die if you have any experience with the series .There's also problem is that the streamlining has bulldozed other aspects even more, you barely need to navigate manually.
No crashes or significant problems on base PS5 so far but when I tried to go online, the network was having a moment.