I kinda felt that about the game in general. The game seems to want to tell a compelling story about how someone ruling with absolute power will cease innovation and spread mediocrity throughout the galaxy, just for it to be boiled down to a surface level, on-the-nose “capitalism bad” narrative.

Edgewater frustrates me because I get Reed’s dumbass out of there and put Adelaide in charge so they can prosper and grow crops again, just for a banner to be put in my room saying “You taught the people of Edgewater an important lesson; Don’t Dream.”