Wanted to give it a straight not recommend but after seeing it took me over 40 hours to stop playing it's not a terrible game.

On the contrary at first, refreshing RTS with some nice new concepts.

But

My main gripes with the game all ultimately leads to the same problem, disregard for players available time to play.

You can screw yourself on a tech tree and the only solution can be either to pass some extremely hard missions to unlock missing tech or restart campaign.

The missions gets harder, but it's more or less the same. I hate how careful you have to be at the mission start for so many times already. It just got grindy.

Oh you made a mistake after an hour long mission? Time to start over. It's a singleplayer game FFS.

Verrrry slow. Each campaign level takes forever and not because of interesting gameplay or challenge. There's just a ton of down time, waiting for resources, waiting for population to tick up, waiting waiting waiting.

Two QoL changes and this game would go from "definitely play through the campaign once" to "annual re-install":
- save games
- hurrying waves so you don't have to wait for ages sitting on your hands