It was not ready to be released from EA. There's still a bunch of issues with the game including but not limited to

-Crashes, I've crashed about 10 times in Hawaii in just 4 hours of playing and PEI twice in about 2 hours. I can't actually remember the last game I crashed in before this.

-Zombies are still no challenge, they just stay inside towns and are way too easy to avoid and kill

-Cars are awful, they handle terribly, being able to build a giant metal fort around one is ridiculous since the downside of using a car should be you're vulnerable, but you move faster, there's still no inventory in them for some reason. They just scream early access still

-Bases need an overhaul, they're still just awful. It feels like I'm playing a bad Rust copy when I'm building a base.

-Optimization. Even though the top post right now says optimization isn't an issue, it is. I can run any other game fine and this shouldn't be an exception no matter the developer. I still stutter like crazy on something as simple as PEI, mostly because of things like massive sky bases.

I like the game a lot and it's a lot better then most early access games, but saying it's released and a finished product is kind of a shitty move