I bought this in the winter sale so I'm not sure what it was like in the before times but there are several things I love about Nightingale.
-The crafting system is excellent and well balanced. There is very little need for farming resources, you just get them as part of normal play (as long as you do some light work to gather stuff during the quests). You rarely have to wait for crafted items to be made, a few seconds at most. The progressing is smooth and logical.
-You don't have to carry around all your crafting materials with you, as long as they are stored within a certain distance of the crafting stations you have access to them, this is a QOL feature I really love.
-Voice acting is top notch
-The story and lore is deep and interesting
-The combat is pure chaos
-You can set the difficulty to anything you want, from content tourist (Explorer) to super hard core streamer mode.
-I saw the comparison to Satisfactory and it's not immediately apparent why, but the followers system and the many difference realms and stations you can build to farm resources make it possible to almost automate some things. Final product crafting is still manual though.

The bad points
-It kinda runs like crap unless you play with the settings, I have a 3060Ti running at 1440p and it at any level of detail it runs pretty bad, it runs much better at 1080p and still looks great.
-Combat is pure chaos (I know this was also a plus).