Civ seems to have turned into some weird Sandbox, there is no game in it anymore.
I play for 30-50 turns, look at my position and feel like I've won already and there is nothing left to do than hit next turn until the game is won.
I love sandboxes, like Factorio, Oxygen Not Included and many others, they have zero game in them, it's more like taking AutoCad and pretending you are an architect and trying to build something and I love that, but Civ is a really horrible sandbox, so I for one need some kind of game, where I compete against the AI, but the AI is nothing but a random number generator with mostly no weighting towards optimal play.
I just don't get how anyone can enjoy the game, it takes like a handful of playthroughs to learn the mechanics and after that it's just the same and the same and the same, because the AI never does anything interesting.
I've watched the press release players, but I'm not impressed, it doesn't seem like any of them is enjoying playing and no one seems even remotely interested in the ambiance of the game, it's just watching someone trying to click next turn as fast as possible with no appreciation of the game. I know they most likely make money from the videos and I think that is the only reason they bother.