game is alright now, they're slowly reworking every single system to make it more granular and involve more gameplay than "press the button", last major update added some features that reduce the sameyness of playthroughs like the world market (you can actually specialise your economy rather than needing to do the iron -> tools -> steel etc build each time). unfortunately the war system is still dogshit ass awful and statebuilding v boring so maybe wait another year or two