I should be able to click the icon from the desktop/Steam/console menu/whatever and just be put into the game (optionally with it paused) ready to play, so I can walk away and get a drink or something while it loads.
Been trying to play multiplayer for about an hour tonight. FFS don't be the lobby host that just immediately kicks people when they join your game that's listed on the PUBLIC SERVER LIST.
My experience has been joining 20 games in a row, then getting kicked out of 19 of them without warning within 5 secs.
The last one, someone said "go away" and then I got kicked. Sad lol.
That dev is probably doing this as a small bit of marketing for their soon to be released game set in the same Endless universe that they use for all of their games.