never got the criticism towards Deadfires ship stuff either (except for the ship to ship text combat, perhaps).
I liked the whole traveling around in the ship thing.
I thought the text based combat was pretty horrendous though.
I wouldn't call it horrendous - it's definitely not good, but it's so quick to do and so skippable I don't really comprehend why people mention it so much. Minigames rarely turn out well. As something I can do when traveling between point A&B or skip entirely I did find some enjoyement in the system from the "immersion" or "roleplaying" standpoint.
The most legit criticism I have seen of Deadfire ship, is that it removed almost all outside areas. There are people who really like connected open areas of BG1 or PoE1. I am not one of them, but I can see how they would see the abstraction as a negative.
