Absolutely agree with this point in particular OP. As you mentioned, this is v1.3, so you have to appreciate that there is a long way to go before ED can be thought of as "finished". ED still needs some bugs fixing, and perhaps FD will crush them well before v2.0! The problem was with FD for saying that ED was "complete" on 16 December 2014, when it clearly wasn't, with people expecting all sorts to have been implemented (myself included). It has been quite disheartening to have played since PB and see this beautiful looking game slowly become a joke (PP, CQC). It is my hope that FD will now start to look at immersion and the emergence of a living and breathing galaxy, rather than allow the stagnant look and feel to stations in particular. (IMO, PP does nothing to improve ED or its immersion!)
FD has never said Elite was 'complete', they just said it was ready for release. While I considered buying this game I did some investigating. I was not surprised at all by what was delivered. I felt like FD was up front and open about the state of the game at release. If you don't care to do any searches or reading, you can come to the wrong conclusions.