1)Immersion and lore. No significant improvements whatsoever. It's this spiritless world you don't give 2 cents about. Cities are meaningless names like dots on a map. No history, no secrets, no glorious past, no people's daily stories. No unique culture and quirks for each faction. No diplomatic and strategic differences when you interact interfactionaly. No historical alliances and hostilities between them either. Spontatneous wars erratically happening for no reason. No artifacts, no prizes to be sought after, no secrets to be brought to light.
2)Common sense lacking yet again. When the Lord aka you has to bother with the most menial of loots, like picking each fur coat after a battle one by one, you know no real thought has gone into the common sense department. You should be able to make your inferiors to bother with those matters. Or to select them en mass through smart menu buttons, or have a system that automatically picks only the best loot and resolves the lesser logistics like that. Or when you banter, there is no wit put into it like in classic RPG games with great bantering mechanisms like vampire masquerades or fallout. Bots and factions have no character. Also you are not motivated to up your skills and charisma for more bantering variety. Or when smaller armies than you still chase you around etc.Common sense is as lacking as ever.
3)Your land but not exactly your land. When anyone can come and pick men from your fiefs with no repercussions. No banter, no paying any fees as a sign of respect etc. When no matter your renown you get equally looted by bandits etc. When you clear an area and it is still as infected as ever. Caravans and foreign parties move through and through your lands completely unchecked and uninhibited.
4)Your actions overall are aimless and unrewarding. Fighting, besieging castles, beating impossible armies, nothing leaves a mark, nothing matters. It's just a +1 in whatever meaningless list you are upgrading.
5)Upgrade your village or castle, but for what? It's just useless clicking addons.
6)The AI of your Lords. well it's not exactly what you would wish for a companion.
7)Building your relationships with nobles and questing in general. You jusst can't bother with it. It's a copy pasta of WB yet again. Same with how limited are the activities that upgrade your individual skills. Like mechanics only through sieges etc. Or building relationship with your fiefs being so limiting and often stagnating too when they have no more silly quests to give you. Not like you could bring gifts, donate money, bring protection, raise infrastructures, marry your lords to their peasant girls etc to raise relationship status. Of course those couldn't be options, lol.
How imprisoned Lords escape from captivity so easily. Like you can't double the guards or put your trusted seasoned veterans to guard them.
Why so many years for this TW? you could just make more expansions for WB and save yourself unlimited effort and money... .