Absolutely, the backend federation protocol I personally think is great (though I question the scalability of a lot of the existing backend implementations). With some extra discovery services that help connect you to different instances, I think that would really help with some of the challenges I’ve personally see people run into
Cities Skylines is one of my favorite modern games. I’ve mostly played it on PC, but also played it extensively on the Switch, which surprised me. Despite CS1 not being “designed” for console, it plays surprisingly well with a controller and I am looking forward to seeing how CS2 works with a controller too