User blog comment:GamesterD/Announcement: About PvZ3 Pre Alpha/@comment-36079976-20190718133728

by this point half of me feels that it should be considered more of a spin-off than a third main series game

it just seems to stray off the arguably fundamental features of the original PvZ games too much, and by this point, i sorta feel that one could view the "seed packets" as "cards" and the "sun" as "elixir", seeing as this game seems so comparable to Clash Royale

And no, saying "it's just in pre-alpha" isn't much of an excuse. it seems probable that these featured major changes of gameplay are going to remain this way, and i have doubts that they'll absolutely change this way of play in the final version