I've not played harvest moon, but I found stardew valley and animal crossing a bit tedious... I guess people mean games that have a lot of small low stress tasks that don't require much risk taking?
My pet peeve is when people use "then" but they actually meant to use "than". I think it might be mainly due to flaws in predictive text on phone keyboards though.
Lack of load times? Were you fooled by the controller flying through a portal animation? I guess it might be slightly shorter than the Mario Odyssey load times? I don't remember, I haven't played Odyssey again since it was released.
Also, it's for the whole brewing industry, so that would also include wages and other input costs etc.