The gameplay being good and enjoyable is infinitely more important that the story being "like in the old times" for the game this is.
The story is gonna be the smallest part of the playtime players of this kind of game needs to succeed anyway, so even if it ends up being "just" enjoyable, thats first of all more than most competitors managed and second completely irrelevant month 2/3 anyway, while gameplay, gunfeel and what some people refer to as "the grind" will be what this game lives or dies by.
Anthem is probably gonna end up like Assassins Creed post Origins.
Very successful and loved by the majority, with some part of the "old bioware" community constanty being toxic and angry because Bioware moved on to a different style of game and "left" them behind.(even though they still are making DQ4)
A studio is not forced to always cater to the same fanbase.
Nobody has to like the new style of game the studio might want to make, but being angry and toxic about what the studio wants to make/is making helps nobody and just makes the angry peoples life less enjoyable, as well as everybody around them.
If you dont like the new style, just move on. No need to try to ruin it for other people, or trying to shame people for liking it.
