There are very few, large reasons, that this review is negative. More about that later.

This game is Amazing. It's such a MASSIVE UPGRADE from the jankiness of Payday 2. To say "Quality of life" is an understatement, when, realistically speaking, it's a gigantic overhaul.

Movement is more fluid, AI is better, things are more straightforward, faster, less frustrating.
You can actually do things when you're not masked up, including doing entire heists. (I was carried by my friend whose post I am copying but changing it up a little ;D)

Some features I actually cant state how much I like it are:
The pager Indicator, like, now we know how many we have at any time, Only thing that would make it better is a way to increase it, like say a perk that you get 1 or 2 more pagers per person with the perk in the team, Only just starting at this point with almost no skills unlocked yo.
Corpse removal is now a thing with no skills or items needed, body bags are so last game.
Lockpicking is no longer a massive chore, AND its quasi automated so you can just not do anything but interacting speeds it up!
You have unlimited zip ties (If they limit this, I'm going to be mad as hell) Actually stolen from my mates post, Like, I CAN NOT begin to describe how infuriating how badly they did Zip Ties in PD2. I can buy a bag of like 50 of them for AUD. YOU ARE TELLING ME, that a group of Heisters cant afford to get a surplus of Zip Ties and just have Hundreds of them on their persons?
Stealth is actually a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ option! No seriously, I did 2 heists maskless right up until my mate mucked up the ending getting bags to van and we had used our last pager already, We were on the God Seed and I was the perfect bait to get our last pager guard out of LOS of the Civs and he had no chance against a dude with a gun behind the door.
As I've said, all of the game has been overhauled. It feels SO much better than PayDay 2 after they nerfed all the fun tech like infinite ZTs and grabbing bags through the hanger walls in Firestarter.
Saved Seeds are amazing, Makes replaying a restart actually fun especially when you change your track and get more. Assuming you're going for a Mask off stealth everyone run.

There was also no promise of Safehouse customizations in Pre-orders that then got ♥♥♥♥ on by the dev team only to, years later finally release something about it that was god awful and then a massive overhaul on the safehouse anyway that I missed because I stopped playing years before and it felt wrong playing PD2 solo at that point outside of just, wandering around the old places.

The following is why its absolutely a negative review.

Always Online! That's right, the bane of all gamers everywhere who just wanna play a game with next to no internets absolute joy killer! I have had so many good runs die to server Disconnects, God seeds if you will, Hell we even had Brute forced codes for a vault door.

Then Almir comes in swinging his big heck you club around and the breeze from that moves a cable ever so slightly and blamo, you now don't get to play the game. All you end up doing is incentivizing Hackers to get good at hacking the game. IF VALVE cant stop them in CSGO, why do you think anyone else can? What about Activision, they're always doing bot nukes but here we are.

Always Online hurts games. Always. I have had 2 solo runs get nuked from a desync, that would never have happened if I wasn't always online, my internet connection is not the greatest sometimes and thats exactly what I want to happen mid mission, losing access to a fantastic seed because my internet decided to drop out for no reason.

Now on to the lesser but still important problems.

As a mask less, you have exactly 0 CC options, why can I not move a Zip Tied civ especially if I have no other eyes on me? Heisters always moved civs when they need to, masks be damned. Those are only there so they don't get ID'd and they're going to know the guy who looks exactly like I do except for a mask is still me. C'mon thats just shoddy work on Amirs and OKs part.
Super Duper AI seeing through walls and floors. had a civ run into the store, but not actually the store part they went into the alley, then underground to then look at a camera we shot out to then try call the cops. Got a bullet to the head for that one.
No mask less jumping, I can kind of get it, but I can right now jump while not wearing a mask especially mid heist.

Cameras are, Gods awful. No seriously, who decided the UI for them, THEN shot gunning their order into the rows, AND THEN deciding not to have a marker on those tiny little black boxes for any that had a runtime on them, like a blue one for instance since that's what color they are, and then a red one if someone marks one, THAT would make the game infinitely better in terms of stealth and just overall usability for hacker skill sets. Its actually god awful and whoever designed it has a special place in hell.

Now some tech fun:

Failure to restart heist, No seriously, we had an error and we both hit restart and it kept playing, we didn't get to restart and had to throw the entire run. Doors relocking, Seriously, we had a door we got the code for, I used said code and it relocked the door on me and I could not unlock it from the outside, only internally after that.
ONE Full System Crash with threats of full system wipe, both screens whited out and I could still hear the music in the background, But nothing else, When I restarted my computer, it failed to restart at all and needed a second one. THEN when it came back up online it was threatening a system restore or to continue start.

IS this game worth the current asking prices? I don't know on anything over base because they haven't released Season pass DLC at this time, Honestly though, Yeah its kinda worth the money but again, It has its problems, just look at the Reddit posts about "Rock the Cradle" that is rife with bugs, 2 of I ran into tonight when we spent like 5? hours running the same mission getting the VIP bug 2-3 times and the disapearing keycard at least once.

Ok, I have to amend the above part about price, its very much worth the cost for base game. Me and my above mate just spent the better part of an hour doing "No rest for the wicked" for "Color me surprised", It took like 5-10 minutes for the achievement to pop but it came up in the end. So yeah, the price is ok but its still a woeful negative.

NPC Heisters are a little spotty but not entirely useless since they can free you if you get got.

So far its better than PD2, but its still riddled with problems. So uh, Buyer Beware and all that.

Peace.