I think a lot of us are overreacting

Since the patch update, the sub (and now YouTube) has been littered with comments bemoaning some of the decisions made or not made on that update.

Chief among them is the discourse over cooking with ruined food. I think we're all being a little ungrateful and experiencing myopia on some of the things we're griping about.

I always try to put into perspective that I paid $20 for this game 11 years ago and I've enjoyed it for thousands of hours. My ROI versus Hinterland's is absolutely lopsided. I've paid fractions of a cent to play this incredibly engaging game for more than a decade.

The mountain of work this small studio manages to crank out is nothing short of bewildering and they manage to do it without shaking the playerbase down for cash. Turn to any other game of this magnitude and look at the cost to play. Nevermind that they have never and probably will never stoop to subscriptions or skins or other insulting pay-to-play models. An overwhelming number of survival games never leave alpha, nevermind making it to console. They wrote a second game worth of content and sold it for half what any other studio would have demanded.

I think a lot of us would do well to remember this is a hotfix/patch update and they still have the final Episode to ship AND they're working on a whole new game in tandem with that. If they didn't address every line item we've moaned about over the past few months, that's okay. That they're still pushing updates to this 10+ year old game without asking you for a cent more than what you originally paid is a rare gift these days. Maybe I'm just a sap but I think they deserve some understanding from the playerbase.