unfortunately some people will judge the game as a full release, even after reading that its an early release. I've been following this game for so long and i'm really looking forward to EA but I am afraid that the content they have wont be enough to keep other people interested until full release.
This is true, they have been very vocal about being heavily inspired by pokemon but it would've been cool to have their monsters take a more original style, like what Rivals of Aethers did with their Smash platform fighter game.
I dont agree with the temtem having bad design, they are definitly different from pokemon but they arent bad. Some are actually pretty good and better than what pokemon has come up with in years (looking at you garbage bag and vanilla cone pokemon, I dont even know why they chose to put those...