New Horizons is a really contradictory match for Animal Crossing Bells me. On one hand it really does move the series forward in certain smart ways (deocrating and landscaping, NookMiles is a better execution of the MEOW Coupons from Welcome Amiibo) but at the same time when you get down to the small details it seems like it's less fully featured than New Leaf. I like the game a good deal, and moving back to enjoying my New Leaf town on the 3DS little screen is not exactly comfortable so I'm hardly about to fall New Horizons, but I can't shake the feeling it may be a lot better, and I expect the game team hears that sort of feedback and strives to react to it.
My expectation at this point is that they're secretly working on a big content dump that'll come out around the anniversary of the match and they've only been spoon feeding us small upgrades to maintain us invested. I really like the new features they have added and I love the aesthetics of the game, but it's those old attributes that kept me invested in the sequence. NL got that fairly big amiibo upgrade, something similar could do wonders for NH.
Yeah... I knew this was likely to occur the moment they executed the slow-drip technique. New Horizons is an incomplete game, however, they needed to discharge Animal Crossing past March, I guess, even if it meant giving us waaaay less material compared to New Leaf. It's tragic because New Leaf with New Horizon's customization and decoration could quite literally be a PERFECT Animal Crossing game, but they thought that customization could carry the whole adventure for everyone, which certainly hasn't worked out.
If you'd like a specific furniture collection you can't rely on a specific vendor to market that product, you have to hope that you get all the recipes and none of buy Animal Crossing Items those things require materials that can only be obtained in specific areas of the year.
