My personal opinion. Bought the game. Looked forward to it. This review isn't permanent, just an opinion I've formed after playing it for 15 hours. I'm going to come back and rewrite it after playing around a little more,
Here's my 15-hours-in opinion of the game.

First, I should say that I'm a HUGE fan of the Tropico franchise. My favorite was 4, and 5 was okay as well. 6 does not hold the same magic as the others for me. The Tropico franchise has always been primarily a city builder, with a few management things on the side that made it a bit more challenging and fun. Tropico 4 was the last one I played where city building seemed to be the focus. 5 had a little more of the management elements, but it wasn't overwhelming.

6 is almost all management, and I can't handle it well. To be fair my complaints are largely based on me needing to "Git Gud" at the management elements. It's too much. Even on the easiest setting, even in friggin' sandbox. I can't wrap my head around what Kalypso wants me to do with the management of the buildings.

It seems like no matter how many houses, apartments, bunk houses, or anything I build, there's never the right balance of housing. No matter what upgrades or downgrades you make, no one's happy with them. No matter how you set the work modes or how you research new ones, on ranches, plantations, business buildings, whatever. None of them work right. Having one of every building i doesn't work. Having several of any building doesn't work. Trade makes no sense. Building docks doesn't have the same effect it's had in the past several games. El Presidente exists to visit buildings. That's it.

Just boring, entirely too difficult, unbalanced, and not intuitive compared to previous games in the series. I'll go watch some videos of other people who can win and see what they're doing differently, but I'd rather go play Fallout 76 than feel like an idiot.

Good job, Kalypso.