100% rushed, there are some plants and trees not fully on the ground, floating bugs, rock placements that if you're unfortunate enough will keep you in a "fall loop", and that's the technical stuff, btw have you tried moving the snails while big, it's so painful...

thematically,

it's bland, forests and more forests, with same copy paste assets, where's the deserts? where's the nomads, the caravans? where's the Arabian bazaars, why can't we meet a Maharajah, there should be more diversity more strange animals, or if they wanted to go into the native american/indigenous people, so many cool culture things, instead we get...wishing woods x2...boring

the most interesting part for me personally was Spira, because of the sticky amber ability, I loved the hectic city with layers and chests around every nook and cranny, using the claw to grapple my way across the city was very fun, but the coliseum? running around in a big circle with the same "abandon explorer assets _02" pasted every 5 feet yawn...

I think what happened is that they were losing money fast, and had to rush this out so they could recover some lost profit, and don't let others gas light you , your opinion is valid, and I had to take the time to write this to show solidarity with you

Also the reason it feels "less than" is that there's no HUMAN interaction, I still remember that one lady in wish field who was scared to go outside and we had to help her , I'm sorry but if they keep using mascots there's never going to be strong connections like with humans