Releasing Early Access (and so early too) was always a bit of a risk, in terms of PR, I'm sure Larian knew this beforehand. Personally I just hope this EA period proved successful in terms of releasing the full game in an acceptable state, where the new revenue from sales will then go into polishing the game with more patches, maybe DLC, new titles / sequels etc.
Will have to try another run of the game now that a few months have passed since my last activity.