Trading is one of the most boring and grinding parts of the game. Buy thing here, sell there, repeat. No competitors, no workshop upgrades, only ONE quest related to trading skill... I don't know how do people find trading to be at very least acceptable.
Only one way of playing is now more or less enjoyable, that'll be rookie hiresword-> respectable merc with a nice party ->vassal->possibly ruler. And even here it goes down to be repetitive horror as soon as you become a vassal. Everyone declares endless pointless wars and even the faction can't be destroyed without chopping everyone's heads and being hated by everyone for that.
From this point, I'd say we won't see criminal empires, upgradable workshops, any reason to explore towns and villages, feasts, interesting quests, reworked siege AI (so they won't try taking back the walls which have definitely been already taken!) different ways of ruling the Kingdom (apart from a "King and Senate" system, where your vote decides literally nothing) and many other things we've been waiting for. All hail console release.