That could happen. There are plenty of game (UX) designers that claim to know what works better than their players. Ironically, this makes them blind to feedbac

That could happen. There are plenty of game (UX) designers that claim to know what works better than their players. Ironically, this makes them blind to feedback and improvement, which then makes them really bad at intuiting what works. These people harm some products a lot. But it’s more likely that the UX will be refined during production as all elements of the game are. Like I said, it is not reasonable to expect feature or quality parity between a sequel in early production and the completed original. The sequel in this case is built from scratch.