I'll be honest... I think this was just really bad timing for you. You came back immediately following a major graphics overhaul. Many of the previous issues had been fixed. Some of the issues have returned, some new ones have been introduced.
And, yeah, a couple never were fixed.
Go play hipster dystopian future game or endless space exploration game for a month, then come back. Right after something like this in Early Access just isn't a time to make fair judgements.