Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

So, I think the early-game is good, and if you're a casual player, there's a good amount of content to enjoy. Having said that, I think mid-to-late game is an absolute mess balance-wise, and it stems from one major issue: BONUSES ARE ADDITIVE. This game has a lot of cool systems that can boost the sale price of relics: item quality, shop perks, shop furniture, bloblets, aromas, etc. They all require upgrading and customization, and that all sounds good in theory, but the execution is, honestly, so surprisingly imbalanced I was certain I was doing something wrong. The issue with all these systems is that, again, the bonuses they provide are ADDITIVE, and the reason why everything falls apart is because item quality becomes the ONLY bonus that matters. When you're getting +500% sale price from a relic (meaning it has 100 quality points), I assumed that selling it from a pedestal that gives a +20% bonus that I would get a 500% * 1.2 = 600% bonus. But no, you get 500% + 20% = 520% bonus, which is obviously a lot less. Once you hit mid-game, you're easily getting 100 quality points on your expensive relics. By late game, you're getting 1000's. Getting a "legendary" shop perk and adding a 50% sale bonus to all relics, when your relics are already getting a +20,000% quality bonus (so a +20,050% total bonus), is just worthless. Watching your relic change in price from 500,000 to 501,250 after getting a "legendary" perk feels really bad. So what does this mean? By late game, the entire shop perk system you grinded to upgrade? Worthless. The bloblets you painstakingly saved? Worthless. The furniture you meticulously placed? Worthless. The entire aroma system? Worthless. By mid/late game, I stopped using all of those systems. I didn't even bother activating shop perks, because increasing my relic prices by <1% wasn't even worth opening the menu to make the choice. Merely having the bonuses stack multiplicatively would have saved these systems from being useless. I get that to do this now, everything would have to be rebalanced, and at this point it probably isn't possible without a major overhaul. But I'm surprised this didn't come up in Early Access? Isn't that the point of Early Access? This is maybe the first time I've ever played a game and so desperately wished I had participated in Early Access to bring these things to light before release :( As a dev myself, I'm bummed out by the wasted potential here. I think I'd still recommend the game on sale, especially to more casual players who aren't trying to max every system. Stacking bonuses early game was fun (when they all somewhat mattered), and the combat bones were good enough. I just wish the mid/late game held up.