In a survival situation, in the real world, none of use could create an ATV, solar panels, wind turbines, refrigerators, nor many of the other items from scrap we found in the woods. Nor could we carry the equivalent of a freight train of mats in our pockets. And I don't see where we make plywood, we make boards, find nails, and use cordage to fill the gaps between the boards (that is actually a real thing). In RL there is no such thing as a LASER refinery.

I've not had any problems with the campfire, and have looted quite a few crashed planes...though not found a flight helmet yet. No idea what you consider "working properly" but maybe on out of three crashes, I can find it, and loot it.

Are there things I've suggested for years now and we don't have? Yes. Same with pretty much every game I've ever played.

EA or released bears little to no bearing on how much money he makes and you seem to think you know what his interests are. Would I like him to do everything I've ever suggested? Yes. It is reasonable to expect he will listen to all of our ideas? No. It's not our game, it's his.

A spear would be nice...maybe. Needed? No. Nor do we need another pistol but if adding a pistol interests the dev then so be it.

I've complained about things like elevators and hang gliders...the first of which is useful in huge towers, the second I have never found a use case for other than once or twice as a laugh. The ATV honestly I don't find all that useful. You have to get off of it to look at the map. And the map...fog of war is nice, but it isn't done well. If I climb to the top of a hill I should get more of the 'fog' cleared. If I stand on the shore of a lake I should get the entire lake cleared. But then when I started (Nov 2016) there was no map, no elevator, no hang glider, and getting food was quite a bit more difficult. Would I have preferred other things than some of these? Yes. Did it break the game for me? No, I have never crashed, and see very few bugs.

And he does listen to players, sometimes more than I'd like. He changed the fiber because of all the whiners that claimed they couldn't find any. Funny, after the first few hours of play I never had trouble finding more fiber than I could ever use.

Look, things are exactly the way I would like and clearly they aren't for you either. But I have not ever played a game that was exactly what I would like. However Subsistence has stayed on my desktop for EIGHT years while other games have come and gone. I don't play as much as I use to but I do go back to it regularly, maybe even more so than games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim that I've modded the hell out of.

One thing though I REALLY didn't like was encrypting/encoding the save files. I saw no reason for it.