I guess i'm in the minority that enjoyed the present-day storyline with Desmond, even the AC3 bits although they were quite confusing to those that weren't familiar with the lore of some of the characters.
That being said, I still think that they should have picked it up and kept going, not drop it and turn it into a 1st person nightmare of random employee #752 --> literally cutscenes only in Syndicate --> some random chick --> god knows what they're gonna do this time. I really thought they were going back in the right direction after Syndicate, but I guess they decided to turn it into a shitfest again unfortunately.
All of that could still be excused if they kept moving the Assassin/Templar storyline further. The last game showed the origins of the brotherhood, fine. But no Templars really. Now this game predates all of it combined, so I'm confused how it's even called an AC to begin with. Feels like the series as "assassin's creed" is dying and is being replaced by some witcher 3/far cry hybrid. At this point? Just take the AC name off and call it something else.