>>724825249
Again, Ruins was just like that.
Chapter 1 holds up very well next to Hotland, which was the last impression UT gives you of an area.
Not backporting the QoL features from the latter chapters isn't good, but I'm willing to let that slide if it makes the rest of the game come out earlier.
>>724825373
Not sure how much that can be retroactively blamed into chapter 1.
And to be fair, chapter 1 is the one that had the easiest time since the Deltarune foreshadowing in Undertale was very vague, no one knew a new game was going to happen and there were no Mike-type speculation. It was a near blank slate for the fans.