I've always felt as though I'm unable to fully enjoy RPGs. Final Fantasy is one of my favourite series of games, but outside of that it's pretty limited. Undertale was probably the last RPG I played that I liked, mostly because it did something different with the combat system and the puzzle aspects weren't too over the top. I feel the same way about CrossCode, but I would put that game into a different category as it isn't a traditional RPG.
I just don't want to sink a ton of time into a game that is mostly a grind with story elements and payoffs that are few and far between when I could play a different kind of game that is at least continuously stimulating.
v1.0 is not ridiculously far away.
I haven't played it since 0.8, and I actually stopped playing that before I got anywhere close to the end of the content once I realised how good the game was. I never wait until a game is out of early access, but I did with CrossCode. @Jobes has played it too, so he may know more about it than me, I think he spent a bit more time playing it.
The Owlboy devs actually coined a term for this kind of game - Hi-bit. Games like Shovel Knight, Cave Story, Sonic Mania etc. that are very much like games that appeared on NES, SNES or Genesis, but feature highly detailed pixel art and more advanced control mechanics.