I'm sort of a new player (haven't played in 2 years and started to play again these days) and after seeing some guides It looks like the best strategy in the game right now is to rush ruins but I can't understand why.

You get access to a lot of gears but unless you are WX there is already enough gears to make fridges outside the caves. Also I dont see much reason to get telucite gear since it's so limited (once they break you cant get more until you reset ruins as far as I know). It takes me more than half autumn to do a ruins rush, is it really worth to do it over exploring the map / making a base ?

Also I see that there are Bee Queen and Dragonfly rushes too, are their drops really worth to go for this early into the game ?

Btw I'm playing DST sometimes solo, sometimes with friends who are new to the game too