You should not review it until you have iron gear.
That would let you see
portals (fast travel)
stone building
better boats
advanced crafting
a somewhat difficult boss (bonemass is the first real boss)
challenging content (swamp wet debuff, wide variety of monsters, a real step up from the first 2 easy areas)
and pretty much all the game has to offer apart from the ML magic playstyle.

that said, if you accept that the graphics are by choice and you love or hate, its gonna be this way and that fast travel exists (you should have had it before the second boss), what is left is some misunderstanding of building snap points. Sorry but the only valid complaint here is the graphics, the rest is you not playing enough and missing something somewhere. If videos on how to build are showing people struggling with simple walls, its either a joke, very very old, or an idiot. Its hard to distinguish real builds from highly modded ones as a new player, so take build screenshots with a grain of salt, but I don't mod and have built many, many really cool things. I can assure you that the pieces snap and are straight for as far as you would normally care to go -- I just did a simple bridge that was 3x the length of any normal home, and end to end all aligned. Building can be better (hoping for more rotations & other goodies) but its not broken.