The game isn't really dead
I'm a bit but hurt that you'd call the devs "incompetent" because of them doing the SMART thing and fixing bugs AFTER content gets released (as in when the game gets released). As Inverse said it's still an early access, so it's up to us, the official ark tester team, and the community to find and report these bugs so the devs can remove them for the content they're releasing.... That being said I hope to see you stick around.
Speaking of bugs... I need to find me a spider, it keeps bugging me every once in awhile