Appreciate the feedback!
It's probably because the hardware market is really unstable right now. Prices of RAM, storage, etc have gone way up the past few months due to shortages. Valve are waiting to see where they'll land before committing to a price.
You will definitely start feeling the heat. Some act 3 bosses are rough.
Minor spoilery balance talk
On the other hand, act 3 feels like the easiest one to cheese. You gain access to really powerful tools, some of which can be spammed to just annihilate harder fights. Once you have fully upgraded tools you can let it rip.
Yes, it should work just fine. Use something like Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher.
but every job also says 100+ applicants
Most of them are spam or people testing their luck even though they're underqualified since applying to jobs is usually just a click nowadays. Don't worry too much about it.
Not sure about the context of a game, but I've used this to replace some UI nodes when the game switches to portrait mode on mobile. Sometimes it's just easier to use different containers.
I don't think Rust will ever be officially supported. That said GDExtension may improve to the point where the Rust extension can be fully viable to use.
I've heard this a lot and I get it, but I feel like there's a breaking point where most juniors just won't put up with it and there will be a drought of genuinely good talent in the industry. Personally the vast majority of people I know have given up on working whatever they wanted to work in (Embedded systems, cybersecurity, gaming, etc) and just became web developers or settle for whatever "easy" jobs they could find. Ironically you catch companies that don't hire juniors say things like "It's so hard to find anyone that cares" or recruiters saying hiring for one spot takes months because they can't find the perfect candidate. Something has to change imo, the path should become clearer than telling everyone to get 5 years of experience then come back when they're ready.
This isn't mentioning how recruiters now rely on AI to scan a CV and filter people. It doesn't even matter how good you are most of the time or what amazing projects you could make, you'll get filtered if you don't have that arbitrary thing they're asking for.
Absolutely horrifying, thanks
Yes, it's the only model that manages to get text right, and the results are usually pretty consistent. It's a big step forward.

They aren't sadly, it's not clear when they'll be fixed.
I think the post might be talking about last month again.