It's looking great. They seem to have incorporated most of the QoL improvements that came with the DLCs and 3rd party mods into the base game, so it should be great out of the box. And once the mod community have had hands on it for 6 to 12 months I imagine it will be incredibly.
Is this likely to play well with a controller or is there an option to use M&K on Xbox? I tried the first one but could not get on with the controls. That said I somehow played Sim City on the CPC464 with a joystick so I should probably stop whining.