The game isn't that bad, but it's core mechanic, namely settlement management, is just barely there. It's all about micromanagement and cannot be played in any other way. Practically speaking, the micromanagement IS the core mechanic. It's entirely impossible to make the village fully self-sustained, and if anyone would claim "But I have my village self-sustained" I would ask: "for how many years?"
Because in the best case, if you played this game in Excel, accurately balancing production, and your only interaction with the village would be selling final products and paying taxes, the village would still eventually starve on intermediate resource or overfill your storage with them. So you HAVE to fine tune pretty much everything again every time there's a new villager or someone raise their skill, or mood is changed, because everything will throw out your balance out of the window.
And because there's no tools to regulate the local economy whatsoever, all you can do is micromanage your settlement all the time, throw villagers from one place to another, change production rate in vain hope you get it right, buy whatever you're missing, sell excesses. You're not developing your colony, you're getting more things to micro-manage and keeping it on manual life support.
That's the core mechanic of the game, as interesting as that.

Now, if developers would read this, few things that they absolutely have to implement:

* Production limits. That's absolute must have. Imagine a landlord in real life seeing his smith making 1000th axe, while there's no sickles because all resources goes to axes, and farmers are loafing around in autumn and everyone is starving. And all the landlord could do is ask his smith nicely to produce less axes and more sickles. Just so that all resources would now go to sickle production and none to pickaxes, so now miners can't get copper and smith and farmers and miners are loafing around, and whole village is starving. What SHOULD happen is the landlord getting a biggest trunk there is and piking that smith on it and telling the next smith to make only one or two axes or sickles or pickaxes or whatever ONLY WHEN THERE'S NO LEFT.

* Seasonal workers. Those farmers do nothing for the whole year except two-four days - to sew and to harvest. Yeah, there's carrot and wheat that can be sown in winter or autumn, but this still does not add up and generally you don't sew fields just to keep your farmers busy, you do it to maximize overall productivity of the village when it's necessary. You might not need that many carrots. So what should have is an option to reassign farmers to other workplaces, so they can make things during winter or summer, instead of spitting in the sky.

* Overhaul of production system in general. Just do it like in literally every other colony management game. Throw out that abomination of +/- % of production and replace it with orders. So the use scenario is following: player opens the building, adds a production assignment and selects assignment completion options: "make n", "make until n", "make forever". The same with seasons, so assignments change with seasons. Or, alternatively, add seasons to assignment options, like "make until n when it's winter"

* Finally, and optionally, and instead of seasonal workers, a new labor system, where buildings optionally might have specifically assigned workers, but otherwise anyone can do the job, as long as there's one. For some buildings, like smithy, job assignment might be compulsory, but for others, like farms or barns - no, as they should not require skilled labor.

I lob my wife 🥺😭
Must hunt.
Expand.
Build.
Never ending things to do-
P r o g r e s s
y e s .

A good concept done very poorly, a 4 year old game should not have this many game breaking bugs in it