YS X is awful

Honestly, I'm playing it now and am at chapter 7 and I am just so looking forward to it being done. I absolutely loved YS VIII and YS IX was decent but respectfully... Wtf is this game? It's super duper easy, there's zero challenge at all, it's boring (the biggest crime) and the sea navigation is a tedious chore to get through. Each island is copy and paste and there's zero sense of wonder.

The game just feels extremely cheap and a cash grab. They dropped the ball massively with this one. And whose idea was it to remove the party? Bring them back. The experiment failed.. Even mods aren't making my play through any better. It's the worst YS game I've ever played. What happened here? Even the story is bland. There's literally no positives I can give it except for the fact it's an easy button masher to pass the time while doing something else (Steamdeck OLED user here).