Me not caring about Minecraft (and imitators) is being savagely weighed against my desire to support any dev that makes Linux builds.

Hytale is pretty good, but its a little let down by lack of content. Controller support is pretty good too. Looks like this adds a fair bit.

For an early access it actually has relatively lots of content

I bought the game on release and just sort of forgot about it.
Is it worth getting into it now? It felt a bit lackluster and lonely when I first started.

But it has a very robust modding scene. Don't know how polluted it is by genAI now but the early scene was pretty solid.

I've played the early access a bit, it's better but if you're not super interested I'd wait a bit longer before hopping back in, just that way the difference is bigger.