This is a pretty good way to go.
And maybe make a prince of Persia open world game with solid combat and platforming. Forget about stealth in open world.
I enjoyed Shadows but looks like lot of players are done with Ubisoft open world games. They need to reboot AC series and make it more like Hitman games where you have specific targets in an open sandbox environment with different ways to assassinate targets.
They need to end their obsession of making every game open world.