tl;dr: Still recommendable, but boy are there gigantic issues. This is a 9/10 game stuck in a 5/10 body. Get it, but get it on a sale.

The squad control idea is amazing and I truly hope another game picks up on it. And improves upon it, because not being able to at least select who goes first will get you caught and alert the swarm so many times, leading to so many reloads it is extremely frustrating.

The final mission is a joke. Bugs galore, male voice lines despite no males alive anymore (it's all scripted who goes on the mission, you have no control), zero pressure as nothing can hurt you - only something specific can, but that bugged out for me and just twitched around on top of me, stuck in an animation. Just... ugh.

Then there are the other bugs like marines just downright yeeting themselves off the physics grid so suddenly your 4 or 5 man team is one soldier short for the rest of the mission (or, again, you need to reload). Soldiers get stuck on the level so you need to fiddle around (or, again, reload).
Sometimes, lifts just don't work and you need to not only reload, but restart (!!!) the level.
Sometimes, the UI bugs out and shows full HP for enemies despite them being almost dead.

The management interface is severely lacking. There is a timer, but you have no clue how many days you roughly have per mission or how many missions there are (hint: 2-3 days per mission and a few "misses" from events are perfectly fine, I had that and had 8 days left on Hard).
The only interface where you can choose who goes on a mission will NOT let you upgrade those soldiers, so you have to memorize the name, slowly navigate back through menus, upgrade those soldiers and go back to mission selection - what an insanely weird decision!

You can pause time. But not while looking at the map for some messed up reason, despite being able to scroll the camera just fine otherwise while paused.

Why the hell can you not aim abilities (except for sniping) directly snapped onto enemies? You'll miss so many eg shotgun shots because for some reason the marine still aims where nothing has been for many seconds.
Sometimes your marines will also simply not do the ability you told them do and instead do nothing.

There are more issues, but I think this wall of text is long enough...

All of these flaws wittle down what could have been an excellent game to a still enjoyable, but overall mediocre one.

Incredibly cinematic and engaging story backed up with solid mix of stealth and tactical gameplay

Great game!

There is some controversy about the game being DEI or Woke. Although this isn't totally incorrect it doesn't hurt the game.

Maeko is a good character.
the other ( DEI?) characters you dont deal with that often.

Positives:
The gameplay is really good and smooth.
The game is tense and quite tactical.
The story is quite interesting and I wouldn't mind a Dark Decent movie.
The game looks good as well.
The missions and maps are really good. Really enjoyed the layout and environment.
I would love a sequel.

Minor negatives:
There is a bug with the eggs. When you kill them they still try to detect you.
Squad placement. Sometimes your squad doesnt place it self so that you can use a certain ability. Your other squadmates might block that person or he is last in line behind a door.