CONS: More combat focused MEH for people not liking that part of game.
Hey, I
like combat. But constantly keeping up with whatever the thing is you need to do to get the new thingy to see the new shiny is tiring. And most of the time it's just some new visuals. The thargoid war itself is nonsense, unless goids are seriously allergic to tissue sampling. The storyline is too slow and not particularly interesting.
Frontier isn't helping by gate-keeping everything. Sure, make the brand new shiny some obscure ritual you need to do to see the new thing, keeps the eager beavers interested and they get to say "First!". Then just put it in the store for creds so anyone can access it. I mean, the point is to
let people try the new thing, not lock it behind an endless cycle of mat collections and arcane exercises.