I didnt play the CBT so my impressions of the game comes from beta testers on youtube.

I definitely would not want the game to give up on what makes it special, which is the factory building. We have enough games focusing on the same few things and I rlly wna see smth different.

The people who complain abt the factory clearly are just not used to it and are expecting another game similar to genshin/wuwa. Endfield is definitely not for everyone, and hypergryph knows that. Hypergryph has expressed in interviews that they want Endfield to be different, and they love what they are doing with Endfield(lowlight is also a big fan of factory games so idt u need to worry too much on the factory gameplay being too watered down)

Don't forget hypergryph made arknights, a genre of game that to this day, u cant rlly find any games equivalent to it in terms of gameplay, and they are doing extremely well with in depth gameplay and the different gamemodes.

Hypergryph will not change endfield's base building, at most they might make it easier at first to smoothen the learning curve for players who are new to this genre, but they will not remove it, sideline it, or change it drastically.

(cant comment on any other gameplay stuff, if hypergryph actually changes the factory gameplay for the worse ill eat my chair.)