Gears of War 4 judging the book by the cover

Ok here are my initial thoughts/notes i picked up from what I watched. It turned out to not be a live stream but a re-recording of one from earlier that was about an hour and half long.
1. Lancer now has 250 bullets and 50 round clips vs 300 and 60. Looked very similar to gears 3 otherwise. Unsure if headshot multiplier and stopping power are still there.
2. Hammerburst is now a 3 shot burst gun and has 420 bullets lol.  Like every other burst weapon they've had (hammerburst in gears 1, gorgon pistol in gears 2) it looks pretty strong.
3. Boltok pistol looked like it shot fast even without an active reload
4. Smoke grenades are like Gears 1 where they just make a huge smoke no stunning or disabling your gun temporarily.
5. Frag grenades looked really weak. When downed you can blow up ASAP with no beeping anymore. also planted ones immediately blow up so you can plant it if someone is walking up to you and kill them instantly lol.
6. Gnasher looked strong as hell but it's probably just because it's the beta and no one is playing yet to make it a laggy spongefest.

Didn't see many weapons cause it was a lancer fest but the new dropshot looks OP as fuck.

The new knife executions with mantle kicks and pulling people over cover is dumb af. As far as I could tell there is no way to avoid them so if you get mantle kicked you're ass is dead.

There was 1 new mode "Dodgeball" where it's 5v5 and when you kill someone it revives a random teammate looked really fun.

Change I noticed that may have been announced before but i don't remember seeing.
Active reloads have a cooldown so you can't keep getting active reloads in a row. Honestly a pretty good change.

Biggest thing I didn't like were the map designs. They didn't look gears of war like at all and were all pretty big.

Overall I'd say my hype went up because my expectations were really low. I've been telling all my friends on Xbox how much I had a gut feeling it was gonna suck.