"No save and no pause are some of modern gaming's biggest sins"
Oh really? Sit down kiddo, and let me tell you about gaming before the mid-90s
That said, it's kinda sad seeing the forum posts about lack of save in Pacific Drive, and hoping that if they bug the devs enough, they'll add mid-expedition saves. I know just enough about game dev to know that they'd probably have to remake a bunch of the game from scratch to support that, because it seems like they made some early implementation mistakes and now it's too late to go back. Maybe in a purely hypothetical Pacific Drive 2, but it ain't happening now