The quality of life features around base building are great. Being able to upgrade structures in-place and move buildings around freely has ruined most other base building games for me.

The one thing I dislike about companions is how many old, bad ones you end up with. Especially with taming - a 20-30% chance at best of raising an elite tame means my bases are littered with regular hyenas, bears and rhinos who weren’t good enough to accompany me. And I’m only just now leaving the desert - I can only imagine how many reject animals I’ll have by endgame! Luckily with humans you can see what they are before deciding to capture them.