As someone with a potato PC, that first iteration of the game was really hard to get through from a performance standpoint.
I spent a lot of time trying to tweak things, going back and forth between Vulkan and DX11, to make them look halfway decent and run at an acceptable frame rate because my rig is aging.

It was still a little rough around the edges, but better, today when I played.
I decided to switch from Vulkan to DX11 to see if I could notice even more of a difference, and the difference is insane.
Breezing along nicely now without constant stutters because of my old hardware, and it's been damn near silky smooth.

There's a lot of criticism in this section of the forums, and I know that the likelihood of anyone on the dev team reading this is low, but I wanted to take an opportunity to show some appreciation for all of your hard work.


I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought.