Early access should at least be playable without all of the bugs and problems that players are seeing. A “prerelease†should be a playable game with minor bugs.
Essentially what larian did was release a shell and suckered people into paying to be beta testers. There’s a difference between beta testing a game and paying for a playable prerelease
So by your logic, the people who've invested 75-100 hours at this point haven't been able to get anywhere or do anything. They've logged those hours just starting up the game and standing around.
And Larian hardly "suckered anyone in." Most people understand what the early access process is. They even warned people multiple times that if they were looking for a complete, more-perfect product, they should wait until release because the early access process was going to be imperfect and evolve slowly. It's not their fault that you didn't do any research. The game is perfectly playable. Stop being dramatic to make a point.
