How is everyone else feeling at this point?
I'm kind of torn. On the one hand, the game has a lot of issues, many of which are pretty inexcusable when the devs made such a song and dance about listening to community during its development.
On the other, given the developer's track-record and the realities of game dev in general in 2023, its probably quite naive to immediately expect anything close to the level of polish that we've come to enjoy from COH 2 after ten years of balance, additions and patches.
As far as you feeling foolish for pre-ordering the game, I agree. It's not something I've ever done, I think it actively contributes to money hungry publishers getting away with releasing poorly optimised and unfinished games.