Like ever since I learned that no, I'm just imagining stuff feeling emptier as you play, characters actively change schedules to not hang out with their friends aa you befriend them, it just... feels gross??? I don't want characters getting lonelier!!!!! Then the whole islands subplot leaves a bad taste And just. A lot of the characters are assholes!!! With no way to confront them!!!!! Or encourage better behavior!!! Lewis will never give Marnie recognition in the way she wants, you can't encourage Pam to maybe join Shane in working on the alcoholism, there's no way to get Demetrius and Sebastian hanging out by way of research science and mechanics having common ground, you can't get Pierre to examine his sexism. Like I am so taken with the potential of the setting but even with stuff like expansion mods so much of it just falls flat and really what I want is Stardew's level of starting variety and pacing in a Story of Seasons-vibe of a setting where there's more hope. Mistria is close but the devs have some favoritism towards certain characters that bugs me, on top of being a little too frictionless to scratch the itch that Stardew can start to handle for me.