Thanks for your detailed feedback, this means a lot to me! I am very happy that you generally seemed to enjoy the game. I also agree with pretty much all of your criticisms.
Adding some movement to the attacks is a great idea, I believe this could improve the game feel a lot (although this might be annoying when chopping trees, so maybe just the knight should have this).
Of course many more aspects of the game could be improved (as it is always the case). I would have loved to add button remapping and create a bigger island, but ultimately these things would have taken a lot of time and my focus towards the end was on actually finishing and publishing the game in a reasonable timeframe.
But this was certainly not my last game and I will definitely use my gained experience and all of the great feedback in my future projects!