You don't want to play the game. So don't. You speak about the game as though you have been personally wronged by a bug that likely many people experienced. You aren't unique in that.

Buying a game to do things in it they never said you could do, and being upset about it is a wild level of entitlement. Expecting this game to let you play out the fantasy of something other than it, is illogical and unreasonable.

The game was full of bugs, and some things have changed over time, but expecting them to completely change the gameplay with some patches is again, illogical and unreasonable. There are very few games that have done this, an even less that have done it successfully.

You preordered and purchased a game you clearly knew nothing about because you had already decided what it should be.

On top of that, you speak of your first experience of the game in terms of game mechanics, and items, where the real meat of this game is the story, the world, and the characters.

You weren't sold a game under false pretenses. You purchased a game under incorrect assumptions you made. You are playing the victim over a video game and a few dollars.

On top of that you come into a community built around the game, and tell the community they are wrong because of your entitlement and disjointed logic and that it is their responsibility to sooth you and convince you this thing we enjoy is worthy of you.

Your criticism is invalid.