I dont see why it shouldnt hold for other games. I never played Skyrim wondering why I couldnt visit the twin moons. Or played GTA wondering why I could engineer my cars properly in-game. You can always imagine wanting to do more, and the reason you cant is always because you're playing a computer game for which you paid a relatively small amount of money that is not going to be enough to do offer whatever you want whenever you want. Its just that in space-games, where an increased scope is almost inherently easier to imagine, that people go nuts with expectations. And then go berserk when disappointed. It happened to pretty much every large-scale space-game in recent history. NMS, CoD:IW, DE:MD, ED: they all got very poor to mediocre user review average scores.
if you'd said ten years ago there would be a spacesim, with an excellent flight model, dozens of ships you can outfit and further customize, tens of thousands of local factions you can help and hinder, a huge BGS that you can profiteer from as a trader or smuggler, hundreds of millions of massive 1:1 scale planets you can land on, with amazing backdrops, a galaxy where you can visit thousands upon thousands of real astronomical bodies, all the above with full VR and HOTAS support people would have laughed at you and said you were insane. Now its not good enough. And not even because other games went even further. No, because we simply want more.
Well, boohoo.
