they hit 1.0 when there's still not enough to do in the game to bring it out of early access.

This is an example of a game in early access that the Devs run out of money, or interest and instead of abandoning the game, they slap 1.0 on it and release it.

There's so many problems with this game that I'm honestly not going to waste my time listing them all out here, as I have no confidence that the Dev will actually fix any of them.

I will say that while I was able to slog through it for almost 12 hours, I came to a point where I just couldn't progress any further. The game is broken into seasons like most farming games, and some crops can only grow during certain seasons. (there's a tutorial? pre-season but it wasn't clear if it would repeat after a full year or not.
Any way about half way through the second real season, the Main quest tasked me with making a dish that included Soy beans. Soy Beans only grow during the first season. There was no indication that I needed to grow this crop previously, and I'm not even sure if it was available to purchase seeds for that early. So now I'm faced with having to go through the rest of season 2, 3 and 4 before getting back to the season in which Soy beans grow. That is hours upon hours of nothingness until I can advance the main quest line again. No thanks.,

I kinda hate to put a No on this, when an honest answer is I recommend it... if you're tolerant of it being in a rough, incomplete state.

But it's just not properly finished. Pacing is erratic, quests come out of nowhere with no respect to your progression or season, relationships progress and have conversations as though you've done something or are somewhere wildly different than you are...

But the game core is good! It really is. There are all the ingredients of a good game here. It's just... it's not done. And given that it 'released' like this after a very long period of silence, there is no reason to expect it will ever actually be done. So ultimately I enjoy the game for what it is, but I can't really recommend it to people. Which is too bad, because like I said it could be a really good game, but you're constantly running into bugs or bizarre design choices that just make it frustrating instead of fun.