I’ll be the first to criticize the many poor decisions made by the developers, but when you get something right, I want to give the developers credit.
The conversion of the old PVE events to single player events is a great improvement over the old events. In particular, the 9 nodes versus 8 makes attaining the full rewards actually reasonable. Previously, with 8 nodes and 4/2/1 scoring, trying for complete rewards was a terrible slog, made worse by the +2 and +1 ribbon awards normally being opposites.
Of course, I have yet to play RatC, so we’ll see if it’s good.