Sea of Thieves is such a frustrating experience. First of all i love the game, how it looks and atmosphere. I love exploring seas and island. But there are such annoying things that they didn't solved/fixed to this date.
I got quest to get chest from an island. I go to the island, anchor the ship near island, swim to the island, dig the chest, pick up the chest and head back to the ship and what happened next? I was standing on the shore and watching my ship sinking without any apparent reason. No other ships around, no canon shot sounds, no other islands around, nothing. Swim to siren to respawn on the ship, lose chest, fail quest. And to get that quest back you need to go to nearest outpost and pick it up again.
Second issue i had was when i decided to do Tall Tale. i finished 3 parts and got totem and i was heading the island to use it. Then near the island i got message that my totem has been lost and that quest failed. Just like that. Then i saw that item can disappear after server merge. I restart Tall Tale from checkpoint and i got pages back for the journal but no totem. I am basically at the island i need to be at and i can't continue quest because i don't have item required to continue. So that means game restart and respawning God knows where and sailing again to the island i need to be at. Basically i wasted a lot of time.
And even though i understand that game is shared experience i still think that game could use passive mode for people who want to sail around and do Tall Tales and have fun with friends without engaging in PvP. Today i dropped the anchor to look at the ship map for direction and i got sunk. I had nothing valuable on my ship, i didn't fire on other ship and i lost like 10 minutes for nothing. I spent like over 100h in Red Dead Online solo doing my own thing and enjoying that great world because there was passive mode. And that game was also intended to play with other players.