There is so much more that should've been in a "Final Official Update". QoL/TLC adjustments, making Holidays fully enabled by custom server settings so private servers can continue to host them, fixing so many blasted bugs. Instead, we just get one huge bug as the last bit of content, which of course was not play-tested.
I will not be purchasing ASA, it should've been a free upgrade to ASE. After Atlas was a disaster, I was already feeling bitter towards Snail games. Now with ASE being not simply back-burned for ARK2, but totally dropped for a simple remake. Screw Snail, and screw Wildcard for getting into bed with them.