It’s all bells and whistles if you ask me. The perceived potential is there is you think about the great multiplier you can boost up to and the implied potential with max megaways in the bonus. However, the triggers for bonuses or base game wins are still simply a stake multiplier and of course the big x multipliers are still only going to be hit with the frequency of any other game.
They could create a game with a billion megaways and still make it feel like you’d been done in a max megaways bonus. It’s just an eye candy mechanic representing usual low to mid range wins with the very rare high wins once in a while.
It’s for this reason I don’t play Kingmaker….It just pisses me off how much it misses wins spin after spin in the bonus. You accept this more on something with normal lines as the perceived variations on winlines is lower. Kingmaker just gives you more expectation that you will hit when there is none.