People have been so desperate for the Assassin's Creed ship combat in something other than AC that they went absolutely bonkers over Windrose despite it being very firmly in the incomplete/early access category. I tried it out and had the same combat experience til I was sitting at the computer going, 'You know not everything has to be fucking Dark Souls combat' like a Yahtzee review

Maybe in a year it'll be tidied up but survival games in EA who get a lot of success right off the top usually end up bloated messes constantly changing meta things instead of completing what they set out to make