Quite a few of the features you mentioned (i.e. crafting, basing, bigger map, etc.) have been mentioned as a goal in the devs' development blogs. They are goals that Bohemia is planning on implementing, it'll just take time. For now, they're just working on getting the world built. In retrospect, Chernarus is a pretty big place already.

Hey you forgot step 8 in your reproduction list: Profit?

I read the update logs and it seems that the ability to do this isn't a stable update yet, but an experimental.

Wait, did they put the Amphibia in the game already?

The Mosin used to have this issue, too. I'm pretty sure it'll get fixed soon.

Happens to me all the time.

My issue with it is that the game gives me the 260 sec respawn after I get lagged out of a server :( Not very cool.