I feel like Early Access has been doubled edged, bust mostly leaning towards great, for me.

I've gotten to have oodles of fun playing games like Satisfactory at a discount for years before they went 1.0 .

On the other hand, I've also played some games so much in early access that I ran out of interest/energy before the game released with an actual narrative (I think Subnautica and The Long Dark were like this).

But I'd say the latter problem was much smaller than the benefit I got out of playing the game early and cheap.