Except for the fact that there are people like that. Time does not equal having to like something.
High expectations is going into the game wanting a pirate survival game and getting a game that has no pirating in it outside PvP? Like, here's the thing, even when Conan Exiles was EA, It had that Conan theme even in PvE servers. So yeah, people came in expecting to be able to experience the pirate theme regardless of what mode they wanted to play and well... You go and miss out on a decent bit of what the game offers by not going PvP, which isn't a good thing for a game.