Anybody who thinks this game is grindy, should try WoW: Burning Crusade at the time it originally released. THAT was grind. Valheim is ok. Copper grind is a bit too much, but that can be tuned.

I think the game is perfectly solo'able (and I'm old). They should not turn this into yet another MMO. Official servers would be overrun with griefers and gankers (yes, you can grief even in full PvE, I see it happening in V Rising). They would require a dilligent team of full time admins that need to work in shifts 24 hours a day.

Not sure if that's the intention of the developers.