To many people are thinking the game will follow the Skyrim formula. I remember in earlier posts about Cyberpunk 2077 being built in Hubs to play like its open world. It's probably the same for Witcher 3.

No company has ever built an open world game that hasn't diluted the story in some way. They all suffer from to many fetch and kill quests aka game extenders. I may be proven wrong with there next games but time will tell.

I'll end end my post by saying I'm still exited, but I would be lying if I said I don't have any doubts. Sometimes changing a game because you can doesn't always mean it's needed.(Look at Dragon Age 2)