Man I love Valheim but I wish the devs would put absolutely any game design thought at all into any of the systems that aren't straight lifted from other games. There are so many pain points that read as "we didn't think about this beyond using whatever we'd seen elsewhere."

Any time a game is described as "hard core" or "brutal" or "losing is fun" in the marketing and community messaging I feel like it's just code for "there are really obvious shitty pain points in our design and we don't have the skills to fix them."