I don't like rust.
I don't like building a full building inch by inch. I don't like having to worry about eating too. I can't speak to Palworld, but I don't like rust's empty world, devoid of NPC's short of playing it coop with a lib. I don't like literally every tiny thing having to be crafted, especially with it having its own little crafting subsystems like crafting firewood for fuel for a furnace which crafts materials that are used in another crafted device to craft something else. I also despise crafting and working farms.
One of the few mercies this game offers is Pals to pick up the pace.
I'm going to give it a chance but I'm already going in expecting to be disappointed.
One simple improvement would be being able to just plop down full buildings, but I don't believe that's possible at all.
The whole notion of building shit for a couple of hours, logging off, finding all your shit wrecked, re-building, wrecking someone elses shit, always felt really greasy. Why am I spending all this time punching trees so i can build a bomb so i can blow up the stuff someone else spent hours punching trees to build so I can... take hteir stuff that is just like my stuff and is only good for building bombs to steal stuff?