I definitely see your point and I think it just takes some getting used to to start enjoying the game. My first playthrough going blind was super overwhelming but once you get a grasp of things and start realising that you CAN take things slowly just helps you organise your days much easier, for example if I start a new farm and don’t have the materials for sprinklers yet and know that it’s not going to rain the next day, I’m not going to go to the mines with 40% energy left from having watered all the plants. I go fishing instead because I find it satisfying and it yields quite a good revenue in the beginning. The only thing that I find super tryhard is the second mine because it just takes so much preparation and grind for just one run to get some iridium, but you can install a mod to add an elevator there.
I definitely see your point and I think it just takes some getting used to to start enjoying the game. My first playthrough going blind was super overwhelming but once you get a grasp of things and start realising that you CAN take things slowly just helps you organise your days much easier, for example if I start a new farm and don’t have the materials for sprinklers yet and know that it’s not going to rain the next day, I’m not going to go to the mines with 40% energy left from having watered all the plants. I go fishing instead because I find it satisfying and it yields quite a good revenue in the beginning. The only thing that I find super tryhard is the second mine because it just takes so much preparation and grind for just one run to get some iridium, but you can install a mod to add an elevator there.