+ Huge improvement in combat from Fallen Order
+ Likable characters
+ Decent story
+ Fun and challenging side objectives
+ Good replayability
+ Got rid of the annoying backtracking from Fallen Order

- Optimisation is total garbage
- Steam Overlay does not work
- Game crashes like there's no tomorrow
- Still no auto or quick save system
- Dealing with crowds of enemies can be a massive pain

+/- Waypoints added to holo map, but not visible on-screen; the map still has to be opened every time
+/- Fast travel is introduced, but you still have to trek to a meditation point for this

While I can run other AAA games on max settings with no issues, I can't even play this game on the lowest settings without still encountering frequent stuttering and crashes. This is also the only game in recent memory that has given my PC BSODs.
And because there is no auto-save, I frequently had to take detours to meditation points to save because I could not predict when the game would crash. I tried every mod "fix" out there on the internet, and nothing really helped. And considering this game has been out for a year and is still in this state, it's quite clear EA could not give less of a damn.

I absolutely do not recommend getting the game in this current state unless you have overkill specs. I would've refunded this game earlier had I not missed the 2 week refund window. Either wait for EA to introduce more performance fixes, or get it on a -70% sale.

Completed the game on launch through massive fps issues and game crashes and just all around stinky EA stuff. Thought i might replay it about a year later, expecting all that to be fixed.

They did absolutely nothing to fix it.

First of all, this is a pretty good game. It looks incredible, music is great, it has an interesting story and compelling characters. Those parts are fun. But I cannot in good consciousness recommend it to anyone.
My major issue with it is that it's in horrible technical state, even a year after launch, even after all those patches, it still runs unacceptably bad - lags and fps drops out of nowhere, area transition stutters, shader compilation stutters, long loading time even on ssd, regular crashes if you're running ray tracing. The most egregious of all, the game doesn't even start half the time. It's a flip of a coin if EA app decides if it feels like starting the game or not.
On the gameplay side, they learned nothing from first game. Difficulty is terribly unbalanced. Each step in difficulty increases enemy damage and reduces your damage. So it's your choice between a walk in the park or barely making it alive out of any encounter, no in-between. LIke, if enemies hit like a truck and stagger me out of every action, let me do the same. It's a lightsaber, come on, it's a beam of superheated plasma, it should cleave through any enemy like he's melted butter. But no, in this game it's just an oversized glow stick, you even use it as such.
Controls are sluggish, realistic animations hurt the combat and parkour, I would prefer responsiveness over realism.
Combat is tedious. Enemy wind-ups are very short and barely readiable, And almost all enemies have a block you have to break first. When it breaks, you hit them couple of times and the block bar is back, you have to break it again. Takes a million years to kill someone, and don't miss a blocking yourself, normal enemies hit like a truck, bosses hit like a freight train. Then by the end of the game, it just throws dozens of difficult enemies at you, in packs, mixed close and ranged combat. That's not challenging, just infuriating and tedious.
And a personal nitpick, but I would prefer if powers were acquired like in normal metroidvanias - through exploration. Here they locked behind abilities you get while playing through main story. So there's absolutely no reason to explore those huge open world maps before (almost) finishing the game. I think that's a fundamentally wrong design decision.

I want to see what happens to those characters next. I want them to finish the trilogy. But if next game is like this one - I'll just watch the story on YT.