I haven't played it yet, mostly cause I've heard a lot of the things you said above. It's really weird how much this $60 game published by microsoft seems like an indie early access game! I'm wondering if getting the water to be THAT good took a ton of their development time, or if they cut a bunch of content to later sell as DLC, or what... it's weird, for sure.

I hope it gets a bunch of meaningful updates cause the core of the game, the idea of it, is so GOOD. But yea it seems like it's just,,, deeply flawed for now :(