[MaskedRiderAsakura]

I think what's doing it for me is something about Ex-Aid sorta reminds me of the early-2000s Heisei series, which was my favorite era of Kamen Rider. But of course, it has a distinctly "Neo-Heisei" tone to it. And I just enjoy the dynamics of the Riders already. Not to get into a Ghost mini-rant again, but one of the things I enjoy seeing in Kamen Rider is seeing how the Riders play off of each other, and this is something I feel is best done in a show where the extra Riders are treated as their own fully-developed characters with their own separate motivations and goals and NOT as just backup for the lead or an extension of them.

I feel this interplay was largely missing from Ghost where as soon as Specter (and even Necrom to a lesser extent) joined the "good" side, they sort of stopped being their own people and literally just became extra muscle for whatever Takeru was doing.
Even Drive I think did this extremely well by giving the main 3 riders distinct personalities that made it so we actually saw them interact and bicker with one another rather than "Takeru is so great, isn't he?" "Yes, Takeru is amazing!"

I can't say for sure whether or not this will remain true for Ex-Aid, but so far, there's a lot of interplay between all of the Riders and it's keeping the show interesting for me, as they're treating each Rider as an actually different person, and not just a standard sidekick.