AC parkour traversal is such an imbalanced mess to me, its easy and built as a quicker way of getting across locations but the only actual obstacles on street level are NPCs and not the Guards noticing you to attack unless you build up a bunch of Notoriety which is easily negated

the act of climbing up to a rooftop in the first place and actually trying to remain unseen by guards is way more time consuming than just going through the streets, the only other benefit is getting to the other sides of buildings faster which is a street by street interaction

erghhhh I feel like such an asshole when complaining about this, it seems like such an obvious decision to have Notoriety just be full the whole time or have lowering it be an actual challenge instead of these damn posters and cheap bribes