idea about why ES felt bad, and might not feel bad in 3.0 even with VP changes.

we like things that perform how we want them to.

a car that drives for longer between forced stops, computers that don't require maintenance and forced updates, builds that just work smoothly.

when something behaves opposite to how we want them too, it feels bad.

people didn't like early electric cars because of needing to stop to charge them constantly, windows 10 mandatory updates feel like garbage because they are frequent and intrusive, and ES without other mechanics feels terrible cause you have to stop everything to let it recharge.

but they are adding es recharge in several places, and regen on gear to ease the reliance on recharge.

maybe it will be possible to get enough regen and recharge things to be able to recharge to full between big hazards.

maybe ggg will smooth the intrusive bumps.