Isn't that what's most likely going to happen anyway? Some people act like the whole jump is cancelled. Pretty sure we'll see a community goal to make the jump happen very soon, which is admittedly very predictable and just recycles the games shallow mechanics... But it's not like we could realistically expect something else from Frontier. I don't really get the disappointment over this.
Look. The ship is far away. If they ask for 4.5M tons of X, 7.8M tons of Y and so on... it'll never gets done because :
1) It's not interesting gameplay.
2) A lot of people are fed up.
3) We've been doing that for a while now.
I appreciate the fact that you are trying to put a positive spin on this, but it's lipstick on a pig.
At the very least a type of small combat CG given the bazzilions of AX armed ships on board would have made more sense.
Something like actually defending something for once, instead of just... more of the same.
And really, a thargoid CZ with the gnosis in the middle would have been enough. Low requirements so that the CG is wrapped up in a day or two.
At it's core it lazy and sloppy. And that's the problem : months of lazy and sloppy railroading/illusionism storytelling.