It lacks direction and vision.
100% this.
It looks like every Larian's developper add things they find cool in the game without thinking about it as a whole.
WTF about mushrooms ?
WTF about torches ?
WTF about flee that TP you to the camp ?
WTF about sorting the very limited number of items in containers ?
Listening to him, it really looks like Swen doesn't know the game and its issues at all.