Sterile art style and grating NPC interactions

Entire art style feels like a Fortnite cash-in. Vee is grating to listen to, and all the NPCs that talk to you and give you missions are somehow even more grating than say, Forza Horizon's NPCs. The entire AI and AR premise of the game feels so hamfisted in and unpleasant. Skating itself feels good so far, but no Hall of Meat is crazy to me. The line about "a startup protecting you from breaking bones while skating" seems crazy considering it's been in all three previous games. Seems like if you really wanted to throw us this gross techy setting and aesthetic, you could make it that a startup, I don't know, made a way for bones to heal quicker or something? I want to like this so bad, but this just isn't Skate.