A Merchant's Promise

I really wish I could care more about this game, but it seems determined to screw with the player at every step. I wish I could be invested in this game like I am in Sailwind. It has great potential, it is just struggling with teething issues. Things like replacing the wheels on carts, breaking multiple carts as they decide to lilt to the side when you remove a wheel, causing them to backflip themselves to 0 durability and break on the spot for no reason the moment you attach a new wheel, which 'starts clipped in the ground' because of the cart tilting. I've attempted to upgrade about 20 different carts of the varying types across multiple game versions, only 3 haven't decided the new wheel I just added, wasn't clipped into the ground, to glitch out and break the cart because the cart reliably leans forward due to the weight of the handles, clipping the potential wheel into the ground. Their new map, new horses and everything else would be a great update, if they could get past the basic issues that seem to plague the game. It's all the little annoyances, the failure to communicate information to the player, the lack of physical reference. I don't need a map I can pull up on demand, but it would very much help to be shown a basic idea of the kings road paths or any number of things that a merchant would be expected to get knowledge of, as it stands, maybe a few signs 'might' help you, but not to actually let you get anywhere significant. The in game guide with numerous empty categories and 'lore' being some of the few that have information, which isn't helpful to the player, to very limited engagement with other mechanics. In the current state, the game seems alright, as long as you avoid most of their actual upgrade/progression systems till you have days to burn, hoping your next cart upgrade won't force you to wait for the cart to respawn to buy a new one and try again.