Let me just start this by saying that Sea of Thieves is a great game, or it could've been. But the dev team has dropped the ball. I'm putting this here because I don't know where else to directly address the dev team.
There is no reason a 7 year old cartoon game, that is supported by Microsoft and developed by a company with no other titles, is so poorly optimized. In the last 6 months I have gone from running the game smoothly on max settings to playing on cursed everything and consistently getting frame drops every few seconds down to below 50 frames and even short freezes.
Pair the poor performance with the high ping from Hourglass cross region match making and this game is actually unplayable. The frame drops and desync make combat against a slightly competitive crew impossible.
I am a huge fan of this game, which is why I am typing this, but I've just uninstalled. I don't intend to play this game again until the dev team significantly improves optimization and removes cross region match making.
