Game does feel sort of all over the place. But considering the small budget id say LS did a grand job. There are still quite a few annoying things though and I can't get tired of mentioning them hoping that LS must have a list by now of things to work hard on to make the game smooth experience and that inventory, dialogue and journal are some of those few things.
Some people though may have better tolerance for annoying things than others. Especially as a backer I try to ignore most of the annoying things and just get through as much of the game as possible. But if I wasn't a backer and just bought a game in current condition I have to think that devs started very well and then just gave up and couldn't finish it. But then again there are still few more weeks until release and I believe the game will be nicely patched and annoyance free.
No matter the game is unique and IMHO one of the best ones since Baldurs Gate by feel, atmosphere and content I still find myself wishing that this and that was done better, that NPCs had voice overs, etc. from what I read there will be some voice overs which is great!
My first real play through I've done after first major beta patch, which changed the game for the best. I have to say that questing in DOS is a bit weird. I ended up just exploring everything and killing what I could. I think there should be more hints for quests, at least in NPC dialogue. Otherwise in many cases I ended up losing the clue what's going on in a particular quests probably in the middle. They don't supposed to lead you by hand with pointers to quest location trigger, but there should at least be some hints I the journal.
There are so many quests and if you just go and talk to bunch of people in town you end up having about 30 quests in journal. When some quests are updated after talking to certain NPCs a lot of times it doesn't update the journal. So if you are doing multiple quests at once it's easy to lose track of what someone told you 30 minutes ago. Do I have to take notes in a notebook outside the game? That's what in-game journal is for. It supposed to have necessary information for each quest. I don't want to go all over the map to see if I missed something for this one specific quest. Journal supposed to tell me if I am still missing something.
Anyways, it's a great game but because of annoyance and little things that cripple the experience it may end up being a pain in the butt for some people, so I completely understand where the OP is coming from. I'd say delay the release for a month but polish it as much as possible. Don't release it in half polished state with messy inventory or messy dialogue system or messy journal...
