Holy **** Claeyt calm the ***** down. People can like both games. Salem will be fine.
For the people hating on the amount of wipes, just simply take a look at the update announcements over the years. Pretty constantly such big core mechanics are changed that a wipe is just necessary to test them. People also fade out on Haven much quicker after reaching a certain progression level. Being a hermit is not the correct option as playing with people always increases interest in playing. Same as here.
Jorb and Loftar don't have pay to win store packs like Salem does (or pay for quicker/better convience, whatever) so it really shouldn't be an issue to drop them a sub or one time payment. In regards to crying about inventory spaces, yes you might have to return from a forage expedition with slightly less items, but if your boating, you got chests in the boat etc etc (backback with leather working etc)
It's really not that bad.