The problem with just being "able to see" (a-la EVE) what's in an asteroid is the mechanics FD hooked around the economics of what earns money.
Simple fact - Despite what pricing suggests, there's no such thing as a "rare ore". From a mining perspective, they're all equally as common as each other (in fact, the laser-mined minerals like Platinum etc which also have Hotspots are more common than "common" minerals.
So if you made mining "more like EVE" in general... prices of everything should be virtually identical. 1t of Methanol Monohydrate crystals should be worth the same as 1t Silver, should be the same as 1t of platinum (in fact, 1t of platinum should be worth less, again with the above logic). And that's the big difference between mining in EVE and mining in Elite.
In EVE, everything is worth mining in it's own right, market-conditions dependent. Sure, an uninformed observer goes "
but look, one ore is 14 credits, the other is worth 143,000!", but that's because mining rates are volume based, and
different ores have different sizes. Yes, there gets to be some variance towards the end, but from Crokite down, you're looking at ores which are hard and dangerous to find and mine, and have more overheads obtain and move to market safely; those variances basically account for opportunity cost with some hazard pay thrown in.
But then there's also specialisation between different types of mining, whether it's low-volume mercoxit mining or high-volume veldspar mining... but Veldspar is cheap because it's a bulk material that can
also be collected in bulk. There's
huge demand signal in the markets in Elite for Methanol Monohydrate Crystals compared to Platinum, and both can be obtained at equal rates. If this was in a market like EVE, MMCs would be worth a fortune, and Platinum would be a trash drop. Because the market's work.
But this is Elite's quite-static markets. If you just made it so you could see everything very easily, everyone would simply mine the most valuable thing, all the time. It's only that it takes effort to detect minerals that some people hedge their losses and mine Gold instead of Platinum.
So, you can't just take a small section of EVE's gameplay and throw it into Elite, because the economy works entirely differently. You'd have to carve it out the whole market system along with it, otherwise you're just exacerbating the problems with Elite's mineral market.
tl;dr be careful what you wish for.