Yes.
I've only played a few hours (watched a lot of playing through YouTube and Twitch). But man....the game doesn't have the same draw to me as SC4 did...I played SC4 all the way up to last year.
It's likely my play style. I like to build large urban cities, not small-to-mid size ones and then start over....they really shouldn't have titled this "SimCity"...it's more like "SimRegion" or "SimSuburb"...which is fine, but not what I had in mind when I heard of a new SC game.