Right there with you! I at least appreciate the cynicism of 2 as like a reaction to people’s criticisms of the first game (hate the time limit?thought the first game was too short? Have all the time in the world… to toil in the mines!! 
) but the experience of playing it is kinda miserable… 3 felt like a defanged 1 and 4 the same but for 2 only made extra egregious by the repeated content from that game. Gonna read your review and probably feel very vindicated haha!
Edit: Also see this post of mine from the switch 2 thread about how 4 totally pisses away a golden opportunity: