The moment the credits rolled I audibly said "Ok."

I think my main problem with this game is that nothing really happens for the vast majority of the story and then they kinda just throw every plot-important thing at the end.

It's deflating honestly. It's to the point where I didn't even know the game was gearing up to end until I got the "this is a point of no return" pop-up.

I mean atleast the open world gameplay loop was fun enough to motivate me to see this through to the end.