More passion in here than the recent Aus v Ind test series! On one hand it's good to see so much interest in a cricket game, on the other it's disappointing that much of it isn't channeled in a constructive way.
1) The game has bugs, deficiencies, that can't be denied. But to call it unfinished/incomplete is misleading. It's a fully featured, fully supported game.
2) Having never played DBC 14, DBC 17 is a MASSIVE leap over and above any cricket game I've ever played. Therefore, I find it to be worth the money even in it's current state.
3) What I'm hearing is for those already invested in DBC 14, in it's current state it's not worth the additional lay out overall. Some things are better, some things are worse.
I waited until Patch 3 to buy, probably a wise move. I also have really only played career, and a bit of local multiplayer and I can honestly say I haven't experienced too many bugs, especially anything game breaking. It's frozen once in probably 20-30 hours on PS4. Saying that there are some annoying things like running between the wickets is not responsive after playing a shot and over throws occur far too often - although some of it can be mitigated when bowling and manually running the bowler back to the stumps after every ball.
To reiterate, having never played DBC 14, I am more than happy with the $89 outlay - saying that, $89 is not a big outlay for me.
I give it a solid 7 glances at the Australian dressing room out of 10
PS if you're reading reviews online, check the date is patch 3 (for console) was released around February 2017 so anything before that won't be reflective of how the game plays today. There were far more issues prior to the latest patch. As for current issues, the hope it they will be patched out of the game some time around the end of April, although it is somewhat a leap of faith as Bluebagger says, but Big Ant does have good history fixing bugs so I've heard.