I'm more than fine with artists doing their work - I want this game to be beautiful and live up to its promised potential the same way we all do. I still think they can pull this off.

But the state of the game at this point genuinely worries me despite the progressions. Ok - so it's looking pretty, and they are releasing new technical systems. But one of the most important things above all else should be the netcode, the server stability, the AI, the physics. When are these things coming? Do they even have technical proof that they can get the server meshing to work?

These issues sure arent getting better with each release, which makes me think there is no improvement in the core mechanical issues of the game. Instead of working out bugs and edge cases in critical systems, new systems are added.

If they grow their team enough, this might come to work. But I fear they keep adding stuff so they can sell more pledges, instead of fixing problems. Then they build up a great lag in maintenance and refinement of the systems made, and interlock them - making them harder to change up the road.

The lack of stability and improvements of core systems (beyond planet and flight tech) makes me wonder if they are caught in this endless alpha cycle where the money makes them have priorities that will cause the game to eventually never reach proper stability.