They've fixed the issues since, and there's easy to install mods to revert all the questionable tweaks they made. I'm not a particular fan of giving my money to slime incarnate Randy Pitchford, but to pretend the entire game is ruined is silly.

Honestly, the QoL improvement from auto-sprinting alone is worth the modding scene. I'm still having a blast and can easily lose 3 hours whenever I boot it up.