To be honest I think this is what they need to do to placate the masses a little.
An awful lot of people have never bought an early access game before and it really ****ing shows with how strung out people are about some things.
I don't expect to see good content, full quest lines, lots of voice acting, lots of polished modelling etc in the game at this point. Holy hell, I got The Forest on EA and it was an empty shell at first. Beatiful, but literally ****ing nothing to do but build shelters and avoid the ****ing cannibals.
I'm more worried about finding limitations with the engine because that's where the real elbow grease has been spent. I don't really care about quests, armour models etc, that can all be added relatively easily but having spent a signifigant portion of 8 years on the engine, going back to work on that wil be disastrous.