I agree.
Image of the game is ruined because people pushed for an unfinished product and the devs caved in and decided to put it into a relatively early beta. Everyone realized that this was in fact a beta but played it long enough to get a full scope for the game's overall gameplay and got bored of it.
It was the dev's fault for releasing an unfinished product so early but I also take responsibility for playing the unfinished game.
I was one of the people who bought the game the week it was released. I dont know what I expected, but playing it so early kinda ruined it for me. Happens with a lot of Early access games for me.
I remember when the game first came out that there were a ton of positive reviews and very few negative reviews, but now if you look back at the steam page it flipped and now most of the top reviews are negative.
The Devs need to get their head on straight and need to start pumping out stable builds. Even if they are small, they still need to keep it going, kinda like how ti was when they first started.