Chrispy_One of the worst problems with Rockstar is that their single player experiences are ruined by all the online guff like Rockstar Social Club and it's incessant attempts to drag you into multiplayer throughout the playthrough.

Making an multiplayer-only game is fine but what people really want is its counterpart; A single-player experience that isn't infected with online interruptions, popups, and upsell.

c2DDragonI don't remember being annoyed by this kind of stuff while I was doing the SP story.
The Social Club is the anti-piracy system, the notifications for online can be disabled in the RDR2 options, I never had a pop up to buy gold bars in SP, neither in the Online game.
The notifications about joining multiplayer missions you seem to refer to, are the annoying stuff I had to face while playing the Online, and you can disable them, like pretty much anything.
I personally liked the fact I could easily switch from the ultra slow SP gameplay to the wild MP in few clicks.
The MP is pretty cool even if you had few opportunities at launch.
And yes I played a little :D