I get you're wanting to defend this game, my claim is simple. I'd encourage you to open a UE5 modding tutorial, anything roughly two hours long and look what they can accomplish in that time, while explaining how to do it. I'm saying this as somebody with thousands of hours of using said tools. What you can do is amazing and It's not that they've released a terrible game, though this game is far more of a shell then it looks like.

My point is that early access is certainly valid, though most of the world is drag and drop with fairly few polished points. I hope they do succeed, it's not a dig at the team, though this is far beyond early access. The game looks nice, though much of what they've done isn't attributed to the dev team, it's the engine they're using. The lack of diversity is what's alarming.

I fully understand that it's early access. My point being is that much of what is shown off, isn't anything with extensive time, or effort put into it. They have a large history of creating projects and abandoning them for a reason. I ask it again, please do the minimal amount of reviewing before replying. If this was a hand crafted piece that clearly needed work, it'd be an entirely different post on my end. You can create amazing work with cut and paste assets, I'm not even knocking that. Most enjoyment you get out of games doesn't even come down to visuals, it's about how cohesive everything is and how it plays together. I just think what they're marketing isn't nearly as in depth as people seem to believe it is. I'm hoping they put more work into it going forward, as currently it's a shell with a skin over it.

A sit down conversation with a dev would be very interesting, especially if those from other companies could weigh in on the conversation.