It really wouldn’t have taken much to make people happy, either. Make a slightly less buggy engine (I do realize this is easier said than done), bring in some functionality from the most popular mods to the base client so people don’t have to update 50 mods every time the version increments, put some polish on it and create some tutorials. Seems bizarre that they couldn’t manage that when they doubled the price. Squad didn’t exactly create KSP with a large team.