I would like to add on a bit more and say that, while I'm a voice with a very brief exposure to the community, over the last decade and change I've been following live development projects, the two most visible (to this user's eyes) and most damaging causes of failure I've seen devs make are lacking a clear sense of direction and unnecessary refactors.
Trying not to get too caught up in just jabbering aimlessly, I do feel like what I've seen of Vintage Story has a very clear sense of exactly what it wants to be and where it wants its development to go compared to many other projects. Especially as some of the reading here reports starting the game over a difference of opinion over exactly what kind of game the founders wanted to make to begin with. There's always risks, but nothing here strikes me as making this studio and project particularly susceptible to them even with the announcement. Certainly it's no post-minecraft block game vehicle shooter, turned world of tanks, turned battle royale, turned... I could go on, but that alone should make the point. It hasn't been chasing new trends every five minutes and the creators' history indicates there's a very particular idea of where they want to go.
Refactors and their ability to cost years a pop are their own issue of course, for many and more technical reasons, but during my brief exposure to it, Vintage Story appears very well set up, and nothing I've seen so far seems particularly likely to run into the kinds of issues I've seen pop up elsewhere. It's very clear that the game has had a lot of thought and care put into what it's trying to be, where it's trying to go, and how it would like to get there.
