It's too bad this game will never be finished.
At this point the story is more of a carrot on a stick, an empty area with nothing to do. The core community seems to consist of brainwashed gay gooners paying 100 USD/month, trapped in the Wild Life Discord limbo, teased with 10 new blender models every month. Wow, we have added 4 new clothes exclusive to two characters, out of, what, 40. And also some cool concept art. Awesome.
The development moves at a snail's pace. The devs have already deleted 2 entire areas (rip fisher village) and massacred the jiggle physics in order to move to a newer version of the game engine, which might beneficial in the run, but point still stands.
With the amount of merchandise they sell and the amount of cash they rack in, the argument "small company, please understand" holds no value to me. But, maybe it will be released before 2030... Or everything will be scrapped again because of an update..?
Oh, a feature you'd like in the game? The modders will take care of that. In the meantime we'll "work" on the story. 15 USD/month, just to have an access to the full version. What a disaster.