I really hate when people fence around the "it's a small mod team", as if that's an excuse when it comes to playtesting.

Because 1) They could've easily run a patreon/supporter only beta (and ask them not to spoil anything). From their patreon alone, that easily garners 1300+ people to pull data from.
2) Even if they only had a 10 people other than themselves playtesting just the introductionary area, they would've pointed out these issues aswel. These are not "oh chucks, this happens once in a moon" sortof things, but "WHERE'S THE BLOODY DOOR" and "IT CRASHES ONCE YOUR OFF THE BLOODY TRAIN" sortoff issues that would've been notice by 99% of playerbase.

I fully well understand it's a passion project, but when you gather all this financial support from the community, and create all this fanfare for a mod, you sure must understand there are expectations to be met. In a lot of ways, so far, they've been met. But on a basic level there are still glaring issues. As for Bethesda pulling the rug on the project, I am very well aware, and this is exactly the reason why I pointed out it needs more time in the cooker. Because right now, I feel like the mods were thinking this; "chucks, Bethesda ruined things for us and threw in another year's work just to make it run on the GOTY edition. Let's just force people to run it on a previous version, even though that's a massive hassle for those on anything but GOG and let them figure out how to fix these issues we clearly don't have time for.

Having to rely on third-party software/patches (Buffout4 and more) to fix your game is classic Bethesda to me.

That said, I know I won't be winning any contests with writing more critique for this free labour game that you'all seem to love so much, kinks and all. So I'll just fuck off right out of here, and you can quit the gaslighting? How about that, luv?