How fucking stupid, why the hell did I buy this shit. Had it uninstalled after like 2 hours of play assuming I'd come back to it some time later when it was in better shape, fuck me I guess. Additionally, the fucking game is STILL available to buy on steam, STILL overpriced as fuck, even with no active development (which is the whole justification for the price tag in early access).
Just really enjoyed KSP1 and had hopes KSP2 would be more fun stuff, but nope.
I hadn't seen that, pretty good perspective. I think it comes down to the fact that they were set on making an improved version of KSP 1, and were just building on top of the old code. Engine changes and all the things they'd have to discard to make the game work would mean the game wouldn't trivially have feature parity (which is what ended up happening with KSP 2 of course) but the idea of starting entirely from scratch just to try to make the same thing but with cleaner code and new assets was just not realistic at any point. Having full cooperation with the original Squad team was always the success condition for making it work, but the execs wouldn't allow that.