most definitely. hearing about all the major issues has actually turned me off of wanting to play it.
I'm really displeased to be proven right, but between the issues and the lag... what was the point of this?
Lag got significantly worse instead of better. Economic design MIGHT be better, it was awful in the last beta patch, but I literally can't tell because I don't know what is working as intended and what isn't through the Sea-O-Bugs. I know for sure it isn't entirely fixed, because we're still stuck with blended job outputs and no control over it. Many empire designs are effectively unplayable because they start in an economic death spiral due to literally no QA at all being done for them, so much as starting a game and observing that huge deficits to start off aren't good.
Leaders were supposed to be changed to fewer, stronger traits with less RNG due to more options when picking them. They have fewer traits with less RNG, but the traits didn't actually get stronger, so leaders got massively nerfed for no obvious reason, seemingly not even a deliberate change that I disagree with but just the devs forgetting to do half of what they said they would.
The UI has massively reduced readability, is extremely cluttered with too many elements, with entire tabs of essentially worthless information. I look at the management tab under current population and I get 10+ [Species Name] Specialists/Workers entries, with no useful details at all... with one species! This is unreadable! That entire entry could be removed and we would lose nothing of value because it doesn't communicate anything anyway!
This isn't a release version, it's a beta version masquerading as one using the paying playerbase as free bug testers. They've finally found the point past which I just won't buy it, I'm waiting for the work that should have been done before release to be done after it. I'd buy a DLC that gave access to a closed beta, I won't buy one for a DLC in that same state that they're trying to sell as a finished product a few short months before going on vacation with no guarantee this will be fixed first.