Yeah, I’ve been out of Battletech since high school. I agree with @Mirefox; the complications it has seem driven by theme rather than desired gameplay, as a result of which the overhead is too high for the choices offered. It’s not terrible, though, and I was pretty attracted to the relatively recent, tabletop-faithful digital version by Harebrained Schemes, but it wasn’t enough to tempt me to play on the computer and never came out for consoles.
I do recall really enjoying painting those miniatures, though, because I’ve always been a shit painter and (fictional) camouflage is basically unfuckupable.