What I find sort of funny is these posts come along every so often how "x is destroying the game", which is what all these posts distill down to at the end of the day, and you know what - Elite is still kicking 11 years later.
I have quite literally lost count of every single thing that has ruined Elite. Or destroyed it. And yet, it's still alive. Still going.
Maybe the issue isn't that the game has been destroyed or ruined, but that it has simply changed and the real issue is that change is scary and different and at times difficult to grasp. That's okay, by the way? But entropy itself ensures that things cannot remain static forever. So whether one wants it or not, change must happen in a game world for it to not stagnate and die.
Frontier cannot have known, as none of us can truly know, exactly how a major change will go, down to a precise level. Oh, for sure 'experts' here will pretend they "of course new x would do y and obviously how could the developer not know" and act like this is somehow common knowledge, but really that's just the benefit of knowing, now, what wasn't fully known before. There are countless other realities where things could be slightly different and all of those are dependant on millions of choices made by thousands of commanders. Which stars. Where. When. Each one of them with a bunch of people who of course always knew that reality was going to be the authoritative one.
At any rate, I digress. I am sure the next subtle tweak of colonisation will of course destroy everything all over again, just as adding another ship does and just as everything else frontier does or doesn't do, does.
Change, man, its a riot.
Agent Smith sums us up nicely:
