It’s cool that it isn’t a carbrained game, but the party loyalty thing is very weird.

There never was any actual interest to make the CIS good. They were always meant to be mask off evil.

Victoria 3 would probably be the best if they didn’t insist in the terrible war system it has (it might have been improved, but being forced to automate it is boring to me)

EU IV is in a good spot since it isn’t getting anymore updates, but it suffers from being an old game.

CK3 is alright as a character simulator but the GS bit is lacking.

Stellaris has overhauled everything again so it’s a mess currently.

HoI4 is for roleplaying your favorite ideological strawman, not much else.

Yes, except none of that is developed on screen. You’d only know any of that if you were really into the books that bridge the movies.