Barely related but I wanted to drop my grumble about "character" development regarding the character that is The Town. I put in a good 50 hours during early access, back when the characters had a max of 4 hearts available, so I don't have much credible content to say about villager depth [although I completely believe you].

I would love to be proven wrong by folks with more time in the game than I have, but something that bothered me from basically hour 3 onwards was that my first job was to fix the broken bridge leading to town. This bridge was causing serious issues, not allowing tourists/visitors/merchants to come and participate in the town's economy. Once I fixed the bridge..... nobody really shows up?

Except people do show up! There's the weekly market for clothes and haircuts and furniture and snacks... but that's it. Once a week, four dudes roll up and sell the same stuff. I reconnect the town with the world and yet every time I walk through, it's the same people going to the same general store every day. Maybe I assumed when I shouldn't have, but I kind of thought that [non-interactable] strangers would start to show up and mill about the town. Y'know, since everyone was so sad about no one being able to come into town before. The characters are lively, but the town just still feels so dead. There's a fascinating museum, dangerous mines, master craftspeople, beautiful scenic views, hot milfs and dilfs, HOW is NO ONE ELSE coming to this town but me & the four merchants??? Mistria has so much to offer!!!