I say it's not the same. I am the one who designed that system which is grindy BUT as he kicked me from the project, I don't have any chance to balance things or add many things more like Breeder Progress and better Hybrids. He won't touch those anymore as he hates math as I guess he is not good enough at designing systems.Yeah I think people should be balanced on things. For example I now love Cyberpunk but gosh I despise how ass that game is to mod, to have stable performance or that it's still under-delivering compared to what was suposed to be. Sure, I enjoy tons of it now but I cant say it's issues dont annoy me and that on either future updates or on a sequel I wont DEMAND the devs to fix their shit first hand. Same story with BotN. Love the gameplay, love the characters, lore, etc. But fucking hell the endless grind it demands you its atrociously unacceptable in a multitude of levels. Specially when the dev keeps working on overhauling pointless crap instead of fixing the real problematic things like every 4-5 updates a save wipe happening.
At Cyberpunk, you buy the game as you think it's worth and they are still working as you got hope that you will have a better experience someday. It's finished and you can play it. Botn will never finish, dev does not care anyone or his game even but he still milks mindless cows..
I know he is a good coder as I know again, he can work very fast if he wants. Now he is remaking UI for 5 months?... and people think it's ok.. I want that fanbase for sure.