Gaia is an obvious one, seeing as Animal Crossing Bells we are desperately trying to escape the underworld and hit earth, Gaia. Additionally, the first ever recorded mention of Zagreus is"Mistress Earth [Gaia], and Zagreus highest of all the gods." .
I mean, the true problem is that the game doesn't have much to offer.
I did exactly the same as you, bought it a couple months back on sale too lol since I simply kept seeing such positive things about it. Definitely worth every single penny and I'm even contemplating purchasing the physical release simply to have.
It came out the very night I lost my job into Covid. I spent a good month placing almost 100 hours into Animal Crossing while I was unemployed, then simply stopped entirely and have not had any need to Cheap Animal Crossing Items return to it nearly a year later.