Agreed.
It's a shame they're focusing on things like the heat mechanic instead of fixing bugs, optimization, and improving mechanics.
Adding more punishment to already punitive mechanics isn't an improvement. It's sadism.
Mining? Still the most tedious chasing-goldfish-food punitive task in the game.
Exploration? Buggy as all hell, not as advertised, discovery credits granted for pinging, NPCs 400LY out with no fuel scoops, "first discovered by" showing up, but you can't buy the exploration data for that system. No indication on the galaxy map that a system has already been discovered, so you get to waste your time for nothing, if that's your goal. Not even close to internally consistent.
Combat? Fundamentally changed so much in 1.1, not even remotely comparable to all of alpha, beta, gamma, or 1.0 post launch.
Trading? Broken on February 3, 2015, with not a single comment from any developer that it was intentionally broken, how they're going to fix it, or why they did it the first place. Zero communication.
It's like they're reading chapter and verse out of The Big Book Of Fail with a blindfold on the driver of the bus.
It's a no brainer really...
He's not gonna do an interview that's gonna be read by thousands of potential buyers and say
"yeah, we screwed up, we released too early. It's still a beta to be honest. Mining is broken, our missions are repetitive, super cruise is boring and the whole game is basically one long repitive grind.... Why don't you come buy it?"
He wants to sell the game, so he will make it sound as good as he can.
It's all about the £££££££ baby!