You hit it right on the head. I'm over 100 hours into Wrath, and despite all the issues it has, I'm enjoying it. It was obviously made by a small team who was trying very hard to include a HUGE amount of content, and they may have flew too close to the sun.

I gave up on Kingmaker after 20 hours or so, which was disappointing because I've spent hundreds of hours playing and Game Mastering actual Pathfinder campaigns, and I really wanted a faithful recreation of the PF rules set. KM delivered that, but it was a mess of confusing gameplay and horribly unbalanced difficulty.

Wrath has its own issues, my main gripe being the absurd cost of respecializing. Compare to BG3, where respecs were basically free, and it was a lot harder to screw up your build. I bit the bullet and downloaded the ToyBox mod for Wrath, both to refund the 100,000 or so gold I'd dumped into respecs, and to give myself the peace of mind to just play the game without feeling like I need to follow build guides directly to have a chance in hell.

Crusade mode is an exercise in frustration. I can see how the rules made sense for an actual tabletop game, but in this case they're just boring and confusing. I dunno why they couldn't just give us a straight Pathfinder adventuring experience.

I'm still loving it. I often prefer it when games swing for the fences and come up a bit short (case in point, Xenogears is my all-time favourite). I'm not even finished Act 3 yet.