Same. I played it for the first time like a month after release and I loved it. For me it always had good bones and the issues were surface level.

Obviously all the criticism was correct and valid, but there were certain angle or way of playing it or event certain luck to be had that made some people really appreciate it since the very beginning and I’m lucky I was one of those. I wasn’t really too involved in the pre release hype and maybe that was the important factor to my experience, and in my opinion definitely that was the worse that cdpr did to damage the game.

I have finished it three times and currently on my fourth run and yes it has changed and improved a lot but I have loved every single time on its own.