I think people are being a little too hard on this. I do want to give the game a look.
Basically, it looks like they are taking cues from Mass Effect, where you play as the team or squad leader and can give commands to your squad to do various things or execute various attacks.
Basically, it looks like a Mass Effect clone.
As for playing as the other characters, I would've wanted to play as the rest of the team as well. They probably couldn't figure out how to make that work. without compromising their game mechanics and set up.
But when you make a video game based on a Marvel team of heroes, of course people are going to be upset because they want to play as the other characters. That's a valid complaint.
Daredevil is more suited for a single-player story driven experience.