The "oil management" wasn't THAT bad. In a lot of ways it reminded me of good old Ultima I where every step you took just drained your food away. If you decided to do any "exploring" it usually ended up in a panic run to the nearest town to avoid death by starvation!
But given how simple it is to tweak / mod this setting, I hope it doesn't cost the company too much in lost sales.
Scallywag is more like every Id Software game, in that it's mainly used to show off the engine more than as "the" game itself...