You should try world if you can. Rise has too much systems bloat in my opinion. World was my first monster hunter and I have over 200 hours and I am still not done. Rise added so much stuff with palicos and palamutes that I couldn't be bothered to do. It tipped the scales just a bit too much towards systems bloat in my opinion. I haven't played generations but from my understanding, it isn't as modernised as the current iterations of monster hunter so that may be causing you some friction.