Okay, so... This, pre-tech installs, are just previews right? And eventually, hopefully, they'll be a full update right? Because I read the old saves won't work with the new code anymore. I don't want to start over if I can just wait a little longer, so please let it be the case.
The state the game is in is because of poor management, as well as the people working on it. DC has said countless times that this game was just something he was playing around with, and hadn't originally intended for it to become what it did. As it grew, he added people to develop it, that weren't really doing their best work (imo) and it became a mess of patchwork.
This is compounded by the fact that he's constantly reworking ideas for gameplay and stories, making it so he has to go back and redo things, because the ideas are substantially larger than he envisioned. The new UI he's currently working on, is an example of that.
It's not difficult to see why people are frustrated, because they're back to playing a smaller version of the game from several years ago, regardless of the visual upgrade.
From DC's point of view, I can understand why he's doing it and there's very little that's going to stop his vision of how he wants the final product to look.
This game isn't going to be finished anytime soon, and I would guess at least two more years before seeing any sign of completion.