DST with the lessons theyve learned, no like 10+ years of technical debt and progression debt from the original game, and the cool stuff they did in hamlet
also since DST was running into this issue where they kept adding stuff to the end of the game and to experience any new content you had to play a world like 80 hours
i think they knew they wantd to make this for a long time
because the design philosphy of hamlet and DST are pretty ddifferent and hamlet is actually really fun for what it is
but beacuse DST was built off of base dontstarve it had to adhear to a lot of its progression