Pixel Piracy

I loved the atmosphere and liked the game in the beginning. Late game however, the game becomes a serious chore. My cannons were powerful enough to blast the crew out of the highest level of enemy ships before the boarding timer ran out. It also seems that enemies, how you level and the kind of pirates that you can hire is unbalanced. The pirates I bought late game were significantly stronger than those that I leveled during the whole game. Late game, they could not die anymore. What makes it a chore is: - Searching for the items you need, the shop island and their shops are so random that it sometimes requires me to sail 20% of the map to buy or sell an item.- Looting a ship is a serious chore. - Waiting for the ship to arrive on the next destination.- Cleaning up your inventory- Trying to figure out for each skillbook whether a given pirate doesn't have it yet and whether it could be useful.- Building a ship, every time I rebuild my ship I wonder why I can not just drag with a certain block. In the end, I never found the other 3 boss enemies that I had to kill to win the game since after 3 hours of sailing around and bumping onto no resistance whatsoever, finishing the game felt more like a chore than something fun.