Buyers' remorse / Pig in a poke

[Monochron]

I see an awful lot of people hating on "this year's game" as a bad challenge, but the only legitimate issues consistently sited are 1) Fouls and 2) The concept of one game piece at a time.
Now, only one of those things pertain to the main flow of the game. Fouls are like guardrails that you have to design your strategy around. The strategy part is robust enough, it is just that the guardrails are made of gasoline and spikes and are placed in the middle of the road this year.

I agree the foul system is broken this year. But let's stop harping on how the game concept itself is the worst in recent memory. The game itself has some issues, but let's stop blaming the GDC so heavily for the game itself.