Yikes. Calling it now, stay away from this one. I remember they were selling full priced DLC for Ark while it was still in "Early Access" e.g. a janky broken mess. It doesn't sound like they took the right lessons from that.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I played about a dozen hours of the first one just because taming and riding dinosaurs is so fckin cool. It's tragic that it'll never live up to the potential of the idea.