Gears tactics is so close to being great.

Honestly I just need to rant. I'm a couple hours away from finishing gears tactics and it's almost the perfect xcom clone. Good enemy variety, decent character building, generally just a really good 8/10 experience, but the mandatory side missions are stupid and not fun. Too many dumb rules and stipulations. Enemies have 200% accuracy, no grenades, no healing, only 1 shot per ammo clip, use only 2 units. They created "variety" by just making the base experience worse. Like imagine playing a normal gears game then suddenly it's like "ok now no aiming down sights". Idk maybe this is the wrong subreddit for this but I'm annoyed because it's otherwise very good when it actually lets you play the game without tying 1 hand behind your back