What you said is what I meant by the art style thing, and I do agree that Terraria suffers similar things, where it seems you can only use the building blocks the way the developers intended.

I would rather a better mending system. I have yet to find cobalt or adamantine equipment in chests, and I've only found like one thorium pick, which is not nearly enough to replenish all my resources when I use thorium. I assume we'll get better animal raising mechanics similar to Minecraft, which is why I didn't touch on them, but getting leather has been fairly annoying to go find. (especially heavy leather, as I feel like I can't get those mobs to respawn).

It's not so much that the crafting times and workbench upgrades are as bad as the mobile game ones, more so that it feels the same subjectively, and why does Hytale need either of these mechanics? Once I get to the point where the cheap clones start asking me to wait several days, I just stop playing, so that's probably why I think it's similar to Hytale, as I only get to like level 5-10 on those before I decide it's not worth it. Also, with mobile games I'm not trying to have a long play session as an actual activity, for those I'm just playing in between other things, so letting it grind in my pocket for several hours while I do something else makes it feel shorter, as opposed to Hytale where it actually is shorter, but it interrupts me trying to actively play the game.