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The graphics are amazing, the atmosphere...

and all the flaws of new leaf are fixed.

Balloons and the slingshot drop useful/exciting items now.
Houses and all stores can be moved, no placement in the game is permanent.
Public Works projects are replaced by having the ability to place any furniture outside, and there are massive pieces of furniture in this game that are the size of, if not bigger than Public Works in New Leaf
You can sell at any point in time of the day.
Saharah Wallpapers and Floors are animated now.
They removed all the terrible special visitors like Katie that made me dread visiting other people's towns.
You don't need friend codes or have to add people as friends to visit them.
The Villagers have personality again.
Villagers can't move in randomly and destroy your shit and build houses in places you don't permit. Only the first two villagers are truly random, you have agency over the rest and they implemented a reliable way to kick out bad villagers.
Tools are more useful now in the sense they used to take up store slots, but would have no purpose beyond the first couple days of the game.
Trees can be picked up, rocks can be destroyed.
Museum is way cooler.
They removed Beetle Island farming, which ruined the money grinding of new leaf.
Mystery Islands are way way way better. You randomly land on an island of several presets. Some of the islands have special properties like trash island, bass island, bamboo island, tarantula island etc.
Mystery Tickets make nook miles worth grinding for even after you collect all the items buyable with nook miles.
And they give you a constant stream of tasks to do to unlock nook miles. Which means you can play the game the whole day fulfilling little objectives if you choose to.

I can go on