Finally I have been able to sit for several hours and play a bit of Elemental. And I have to say I am very very surprised. I feel like "Where are all the problems people are talking about?"
Sure, there are many things that could be improved (and I hope they get improved) and the AI is easy to win, but the game feels very far from incomplete. Many different structures, buildings, spells and techs, who se number are in par with what similar games have. Well, when I say similar is not completely true. Because Elemental feels completely different to anything else I have played. Some parts are this game, some parts are this other game, but no game is similar to Elemental as a whole.
This doesn't mean that I don't have things I would like to get improved, or even fixed, but I don't see Elemental half done, neither I see it with more bugs than the average just released game.
Just my 2 cents.