Yep. I see what you’re saying and fair enough. I admit that maybe I was naive to still after two years of this, expect better to come.
But you don’t think they’ve been even a little disingenuous?
In all honesty no not at all, I was expecting a modern looking and sounding remake anything else is a plus. My take on some of the main gripes are :
Space legs is a thing they are actively looking at and would like to do if they can do it well and can give it a point beyond walk round your ship once and never do it again. They've told us this repeatedly.
Atmospheric landing are a planned expansion, if they can do it well enough but it's much more complicated due to water/wildlife/population/weather beyond largely empty vacuum habitats.
Grindy for people with thousands of hours played, of course it's a bit samey you've played for thousands of hours.
Open/solo/one BGS was communicated and planned from the beginning, read first buy second.
Offlinegate it was replaced with solo, you could have got a refund pre-launch if you were bothered.
I can't rescue the princess, of course not you are just an insignificant contract pilot in a galaxy sized galaxy.
There's no single player campaign, wrong game genre entirely.
Gah they are making a dinosaur game, yes of course they make games (plural) for a living. That's the purpose of their business why all the fuss.
Steep learning curve, I like that.
You have to know stuff and plan ahead to play, I like that.