I agree with you. People tend to overlook how a game should be optimized and certain quality of life mechanics that need to be set in place. Honestly I think it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid you lose skill points from falling to your death while building. This right here shows you that the devs have conflicting ideas on what this game should be about. Should this game be more about resource gathering and cozy building or do they wanna turn this into a survival dark souls game. End game is literally building and imo what the game should be more about. Because if people want a truly/ genuinely difficult game...then IG would have to beef up the AI...by a lot...which is the hardest thing to do...in their case lol...

Also this game is not difficult or genuinely punishing...it's more time consuming..