Thank you, OP. Great summary, and agree with your comments.
A sloppy Pannel that matches a sloppy game.
It lacks direction and vision, therefore is hard to be hopeful.
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.
Well, that was a great summary and avividreminder of a lot of awkward moments and complaints going through my head during the vision. Congratulations for the solid work here.
On a side note reading it made me alternately burst out laughing and feeling more and more depressed and pessimistic about the game.
Someone else pointed it out in another thread, but just to reiterate: a big part of the issue here is that Larian not only is purposefully ignoring a lot of feedback, but it PRIDES itself about a large part of the junk they are pushing into the system.
A huge +1 to all these observations. You are right on.