This is my biggest annoyance tho, nothing happened last years. Ask yourself, what did they actually add, mechanic or content wise, since releasing early access on steam? It's just a few bugfixes every x months. If this was just 1 developer doing it in his evenings, I would be ok with it. But we're talking about a complete studio here...
You've been on these forums for quite a while and I assume spent some time here. And yet...
Very interesting take!