Pre-ordered Founders Edition. Getting pretty close to $1/hr already.

It's not perfect, particularly the Modern Age (they didn't actually fix the end game snowball malaise for at least half the victory conditions), even though combat is great fun. But I'm finding I'm having a blast playing the first 2 ages then hopping off at the final Age Transition to start a new game. Quite a natural stopping point and doesn't feel like I'm just abandoning a game. I'll be even happier once they officially add single and double age games in settings. Map scripts need work too, although Fractal is pretty good now.

Era changes, civ switching, towns, resources, commanders and combat, memento system - all fresh air to a series that had grown a little stale by the end of Civ6.

Mods have already addressed the most critical UI issues although plenty of dev work is if course necessary.

The bones of this game are truly great imo and it's the most interesting vanilla release since Civ4. Plenty of fun to be had as-is.