Yeah, I tried it for quite a while and found it really disappointing. Maybe I fail at playing it, but it seems to move between syndicate-style global map which is OK and restricted missions which are super slow, super annoying episodes where you get kicked back to the beginning for every stupid mistake. You just can't afford an open fight at the beginning and it's so slow I couldn't progress to real upgrades. It basically turns into a stealth game where any detection means you're swamped by new units and dead.
This is much different from syndicate where if you messed up, you just faced a bigger fight. You could die or survive, but it was a fair fight without sudden reinforcements.