Your poll suck in the first place. "Dissapointment" is a subjective squared measure, depending on one's expectations, obviously. Personally, I wasn't expecting much after W2, thought they'll fail on a Skyrim's open-world field miserably and will fail as well to tell any coherent story thanks to open-world effort, again. So, naturally, I was simply amazed by narrative bar combined with richness of the game's world, despite all the flaws, some of which was obvious in the process, some in a hindsight. I agree with that a lot of stuff they put in the game is simply redundant, but I'm not some autist who tried to complete everything and clear every '?' on the world's map. Anyway, maybe it was you who did expect too much from game which received insane amount of praise?
As for your points, good half of it simply wrong, Idk how the hell you allegedly finished it twice and wrote something like
- NPCs are straight up tells you to go and find Ciri right the fuck away, if you decided to drag it - your choice/problem.
- Radovid's quest branch
- They are talk a lot, you just didn't listen. Overall, Novigrad set incredibly high bar in a sence of medieval/fantasy high-populated town.
Maybe you have to give it another run or just get over it.
As for your "wish this... needs that..." - it looks silly since the game was released years ago. If you're really bother - go try out some mods, I heared they fixed a lot of stuff like combat, loot, leveling, UI etc but I don't think it's your desire. And demanding from a game more/complex stuff like more moves from Eredin is a silly thing too since the game has too huge scope as is.