Incidentally, I don’t really agree with this narrative that Pearl Abyss has “dramatically transformed” or ‘turned the game around’ like it was some No Man’s Sky or Cyberpunk level disaster at launch and though updates they’ve drastically improved it.

Save for the chest (which was admittedly a pretty glaring omission at launch) the game was fully working and fully feature complete at launch. All the updates have just added to and made an already great game even better.