It really did play like a finished game and I would have been happy even if it never evolved past what it was.

Pretty excited to go back and see what 5 years worth of updates did, I stopped playing that first year and told myself I wouldn’t touch it until 1.0

Yeah I wish I waited. I loved it in early access and spent hundreds of hours on it. But I'm one the those people who have a hard time replaying things. I quit before a lot of the later releases and now it would feel like a chore to start over and play through long enough to see the final additions and end game content.