What I would prefer to have happen right now is for the devs to stick to their core vision for the game without any feature creep. If the core is a fun and engaging sandbox experience, then any additions can come later down the line to enhance the core experience and give players new things to do. If the core sucks, then no amount of extra features would make it suck less.
In Elder Scrolls Online, people pay for things like riding lessons (speed up mount speed which is otherwise limited to 1% gain a day until you hit 60% which is maxed), experience scrolls, housing furnishing, houses, and crafting research speed boosts. These things are convenient and don't make the game P2W.
If Fractured wants to turn a good profit, they'll probably have to do the same, as well as have limited cosmetics inside lootboxes to engage with the whales. I know a lot of people hate lootboxes, but as long as it's just cosmetics, it doesn't change the gameplay and it keeps a game profitable and alive with lots of content updates, which is the more important factor.
I highly recommend that people sitting on the sidelines to just continue sitting there till release, because then we will have a full picture of what the game will look like. I pre-ordered because I liked the idea and wanted it to succeed, plus the devs look like they understand development processes and aren't prone to feature creep.
I just see all the foundation gold as a nice freebie. I probably won't spend mine at launch (since usually the better cosmetics will come out after a game has been launched for a while!)
I'm actually very happy that they stopped making new design journals. They already laid out their roadmap and what they want to achieve, and they haven't fully implemented it yet, but are making good progress with every test. If they kept on adding features (like a lot of kickstarters that will remain un-named by me), then I would be concerned, as feature creep is usually the main reason why a project will fail to launch.