LONG WAR its ok, brings a new features to fix the limitations of the vanilla EW, but its unplayable. I like to play classic Iron Man in EW, in LW, on normal iron man from month 3 or 4, everything goes overboard, due to a huge number of aliens and exalt, and HP Bloat. So no thanks, still, love many of the features, but just to fight a huge number of aliens with XXX hp, its just no fun for me. And those Exalt missions? yeah.
Dont care about pressure and making more aliens more powerful, make them more smart, not increase the number and go for the cheapest HP bloat route.
Its gets this much praise, due to inventory optimization, extra soldiers and classes, fatique, random spawn on maps, country base asssault and few others nice things, but the tactical needs a lot of work.