Don’t underestimate the power of blueprints. with the total conversion update coming on the 13th of august and if we ask the devs to open more functions / variables to blueprint. You will be able to achieve a lot with the dev kit.
I understand that you are disappointed that we won’t have the power of c++ in the ARK Dev kit but you should feel lucky that we have one on an early acces game and that devs keeps updating it for us.