Hey, thanks for letting me know.
Ya the character creation takes a while which is why I included an easy way to skip it with the start_no_char file. However, I changed the default so that it is skipped automatically now. Most of the recent updates have been just building the foundation and once finished I can build up from there.
If the game isn't for you, I'm sorry you wasted your time and/or money. But, I hope once the game is out of early access you can check back and see if it still isn't your thing.