This game is still very very very bad.
All the bad shit you remember? None of it has been fixed.
My greatest hits list after a day of misery:
Freezing to death next to a roaring fire. A fire that will burn me to death if I move an inch closer.
Dying of thirst in a river.
Vague abstract art status icons that are meaningless because you can't mouse over them.
No autorun.
Dying of vitamin aids while I hack at a fish I nearly froze to death to obtain. Blood flying everywhere but nothing happens until you get inch perfect in the exact only spot in the cosmos that works for harvesting.
Then I got to taming... 3% progress per feed, then a 15 second cooldown. Animal breaks free in a minute and a half, yea.