As the game stands, it has left the survival horror genere and is just an arcade shooter/Tower Defense game. Death isnt a penalty. Scavaging is a joke with perks/books and double looting PoIs. At no point after day one do I have to worry about survivng and I dont even need to build a base for...
I started 7DTD in A10 and have recently come back to find the game to be hilariously easy. There is no punishment for screwing up and dying. The EXP penalty is a joke.