This article reads like a plea for help. Specifically 'Help! I don't like this game, but they paid for me to parrot the preview talking points from the conventions and hype engine!'
Seriously, we've been promised richer combat and a greater emphasis on stealth with every single new iteration of AC. They finally added more stealth in AC4, and everyone hated it.
Before anyone decides to label me a hater, it's more familiarity-breeds-caution. I own each AC game (except for any on the IPad or the DS), and I remember what the hype engine was like before 3 was released. ACU has the same stink.
I play video games to feel empowered. When the previews are busy telling me how cool it is to be a talentless choad in the new game that can't get anything done unless he's wearing the right knee-high boots, and that other players will be able to screw me out of game progress by being tools, I find myself having difficulty looking forward to the game.