Totally agree with all the replies here.
The game is soulless and completely lacks what the previous games had. Hell I didn't even play much after Skate 1, but even that had a way better replay editor, 18 years ago.
For something as barebones and soulless as this new release, my only conclusion is that the dev team was tiny and the whole project was not considered important enough to put proper resources into making it. I'm sure EA has plenty of great devs, designers, managers etc, but something quite obviously limited the development of this game in a big way.