Actually it does hinder the experience. I’m equally as passionate for this series and it’s developers, but one of HITMAN 2’s short comings at launch was the lack of meaningful progression between seasons.
While many jumped straight into HITMAN 2 and got to enjoy the maps. The people that wanted to feel they had a sense of progress that gained all their progress back unfortunately either suffered a sense of burnout or still had the mindset of grinding the levels and not actually enjoying their first experience.
The DLC season I was able to enjoy because I wasn’t under that mindset.
If you wanna continue downplaying others opinions cause they don’t line up with yours you should reconsider this stance. We all have valid opinions and belief about the series we love and no one has the right opinion. If you disagree with this I kindly ask you read the forums Civilized Conversation thread because this forum is meant to make people feel welcome and express their opinions as long as they don’t go against ToS and the Rules.