I think Mario Kart World's Rainbow Road is my favorite iteration of the track. It's really fun to race on and it looks absolutely amazing too. It doesn't have quite the same SOVL that 64 RR does, but it definitely exudes creativity and has a lot of series callbacks integrated in a very seamless way.
All of these are flying sections but they give you the coolest shots, there is plenty of driving too.
@freeusspeechus oh no another guy trying to tell me to not have fun
@freeusspeechus the thing is that Nintendo has always been able to do that and they do if you get caught pirating their games, it's just that now they have extended it to the online agreement so that's stuff like if you're cheating on online games or breaking TOS or hacking with gamechat.
Just like it's always been, if you're able to hack the console, you just keep it offline if you're doing anything crazy.
But yes, it does still suck. It just doesn't affect me at all because I don't plan on doing any of that stuff with it. If I am able to modchip it later and do it safely then I 100% will but I'm not going to be doing stupid shit that will get me banned otherwise.