No argument. EDO is a massive content island, and nothing you do there impact the "space" part of a "space sim". The only reward that can be shared are credits, and they are a joke in EDO (100k for a restore mission ? 2-3m for a cz ? Lol).I'm really talking about space, not foot gameplay. Give it six months and people will have forgotten all about bases. The biggest sin FD did was to ignore the real meat of ED and thats space.
Exploration get it the best, it extend the exploration gameplay a bit. If it wasn't ugly and buggy.
In a month or 2, the novelty will have worn off, and nobody but explorers will use spaceleg anymore.