I'll mention something different for my own contribution than my usual:
I've always hated Seinfeld, including when his show was brand new. "It's a show about nothing!" was a thought terminating cliche in the 90s that was used to pitch the show at me again and again by its fans, and also to dismiss any and all problems I had with the show and its ultra-privileged smarmy main character. If I got anything valuable out of that show and for that matter his stand up routine, it was a lifelong allergy to New Yorker comedy that front loads a whole lot of "I am a New Yorker which means I am smarter and tougher and wiser and more cultured and more sophisticated yet more grounded than you" self-aggrandizement into the set. :nyet:
EDIT: Please post your own disliked Hexbear-approved popular things! Don’t just reply to mine! :rage-cry:
From what I understand the original KSP was hamstrung from the beginning because it started out as a passion project made by a guy who had never made a video game before. As a result the whole thing is built on spaghetti code and is an unoptimized mess.
Here's hoping the more experienced developers of KSP 2 can fix a lot of those issues. One confirmed feature that'll help a lot is the addition of procedural wings. No longer will players need to build wings out of dozens and dozens of smaller wing pieces.
Perhaps they could also lower part counts by introducing part welding as part of the stock game. Instead of launching a vessel with a bunch of parts, you could choose an option that allows you to group different parts together so that the game applies physics calculations as if they were a single, rigid part.
part welding might be the most critical thing they could implement. especially when you need to dock your huge interplanetary cruiser with an attached multi-stage lander with your duna fuel and habitat station and you are down to 1 fps. plus i loved making super detailed spacecraft with lots of little bits