Concerns about E-Day

You might not agree with me, but as a long time die hard gears fan I have some concerns after seeing the footage I've seen. I'll start with the "good"

Things I liked:

Map design: love the architecture and map layouts. They feel very appropriate for Sera. I could do with slightly less high saturation colors, but overall very solid.

Low cover: this is just awesome, no notes

Cover movement: climbing up head height cover and contextual jumping seems fun, a natural progression of the GOW movement system

Locust design: they look menacing and scary. I hope that comes through in their AI, but overall I really like the design

Things I didn't like/concerns:

No roadie run: as far as I've seen, this is not present. The new run looks silly to me (like they're trying to undo a wedgie). The roadie run is classic, and it fits well into the cover shooter aspect as it keeps your body behind cover even while running between it. If the screen shake was really that nauseating to people just reduce it/include an option to disable it.

Sliding: gears of war already has sliding in cover sliding. This feels like an appeal to COD fans. I'm not saying sliding is a bad mechanic overall - it just feels out of place in GOW. I'm already picturing its use in multiplayer and I don't like it

Red lights from e-holes: this may sound like a nitpick but it just feels so out of place. The e-holes don't glow. Where is this light coming from? In one of the videos I saw the devs said they started making this game by watching the iconic and world trailer and they specifically show a screenshot of Marcus shooting at a massive horde that just came out of a corpser hole. In the screenshot though it's completely dark save for some of the lights on the locust armor - no red glow to speak of

Active reload placement - feels like everyone in agreement here, this is any easy fix though, just include a setting to return it to the OG spot

What are your thoughts on this? I feel like it could be a good gears game, but some of the changes feel unnecessary or out of place for a gears game.