I definitely felt like it was more like Wildlands than the division, but I also found myself taking stupid risks to run and get items dropped, and way to much time in my menu, instead of playing. I sunk thousands of hours in Wildlands, and the only thing that made you tougher was your skill points... It seems a lot of things were fixed that weren't broken here.
I'd get a box, immediately go into my menu to don a pair of pants that makes me 'sronger', then kill an enemy 12 seconds later, see a blue glow next to him, charge at it under fire, then I was immediately back in the menu putting on a different pair of pants!
(And even with skin overide on, I still had to go over to my edit oage to change the color of a new item, or take it off, I probably spent half my time in the menu)