Agree with everything you said.

Unreal Engine 5 is really turning into a cheat code for smaller developers. Technology advancements are doing wonders and allowing smaller passionate teams to create high quality "indie" games that rival the AAA standard.

I feel they can make a movie out of how this game got made. With all the quitting Ubisoft and hiring ex colleagues to make a game that they want to play themselves. Finding their music composer/director from SoundCloud and their lead writer on Reddit. To how no one was interested in funding / publishing their game, to finally securing funding and convincing Kepler to publish it.